- Thiru Kozhambam / Karuppur:
This is one of 275 Siva Devara Sthalam.
The place Thiru Kozhambam is 3 kms south of Thiruvavduthurai. The temple has main Raja gopuram of three storey, and a single prakaram
Main deity is Swayambu Lingam known as Kokileswarar and his consort known a Soundara Nayaki Amman. Teertham is known as Madhu teertham.
Purana: Vidhyadharan named Chandan was cursed, to become Koyal by Devandran. Chandran worshipped Lord Siva of this place, who blessed by him, and turned him to his original human form.
Uma Devi as a cow was worshipping Lord Siva in many places, to get rid of her curse. She reached this place on her way to Thiruvavaduthurai and worshipped Lord Siva here.
When the hoof of cow hit to a hard surface, Swayambu Lingam was seen there. It is the same Lingam, which we see now inside the main sanctum as Kokileswarar. Even now there is the mark of cow hoof seen on the Avudayar of Lingam, and hence the name Thiru Kozhambam.
Appar and Sundarar sang hymns on Lord Siva of this place.
[Hoof][swayambu Lingam] [Avudayar][Raja Gopuram]
- Thiru Velvikudi:
This is one of 275 Siva Devara sthalams.
The place is about 2 kms to Kutthalam. The main raja gopuram is of three storeys with two prakarams.
Main Deity is Swayambu Lingam known as Manavaleeswarar and his consort Parimala sugandha Nayaki ammai.
Pushkarani is Mangala teertham.
Purana says Parvathy made lingam out of mud and worshipped him for sixteen weeks and got married to Lord Siva in this place.
Marriage of a prince was stopped, due to the death of brides parents. The prince penanced and worshipped Lord Siva of this place. Lord Siva was pleased with his prayers and he asked his booth ganjas to bring the girl who was fixed previously as a bride and got them married.
Importance: Sundra moorthy nayanar was cured from leprosy by having a dip in Agni teetham, which is pushkarani of this temple and worshipped Lord Siva. There is no Dwajastham in this temple. One can be relived of all navagraha dosha in this place because Lord Siva and Parvathy's marriage took place here. All preliminary yagam for the marriage was performed here by Brahma in this place.
The sthala purana says by visiting and praying to Lord Siva here all the hurdles for the delay in marriage gets cleared. On every full moon day yagam is performed in the temple for devotees who come for prayers with marriage ceremony.
Sambandhar and Sundarar sang hymns on Lord Siva of this place.
- Kuttralam: This is one of 275 Devara sthalam.
The place is about 6 kms from Thenkasi, and 58 kms from Thirunelveli Town.
There are five water falls here. After having a shower at these falls we have a temple to visit here which is one of the Siva Devara Sthalams.
Main deity is swayambu Lingam known as Thirukundra Nadhar, Kutrala nadhar, and his consort Kuralvaaymozhi Ammai. To left side Parasakthi in different sanctum and to right side we see Ranganadha Perumal. This is yoga sakthy peetam.
In this place Nataraja sabha is known as Chittra sabha one of 5 popular sabhy.
Other deities seen in the temple are vallabha Ganapathy, Murugan, Dakshina Moorthy, Saptha Kanniyar, Panchaboodha Lingam, Agastiyar, Ananda koothar and 63 Nayanmars.
Four Vedas together formed as Kurumpala tree and worshipped Lord Siva of this place.
Purana says at the time of the marriage of Lord Siva with Parvathy, the earth got tilted to one side due to the weight of everyone who gathered to watch the function. Siva asked Agyastiyar to travel down to south (Podigai malai) to balance the earth by virtue of his Tapas. Siva gave word to Agasthiyar that he can watch the function in the temple over there. Agastiyar reached Kutralam and after having bath at falls he reached the temple.
He was denied the permission to enter inside the temple. The temple was Vishnu temple.
Agastiyar was worried and he reached Illanji and prayed to Lord Murugan who asked him to enter in to the temple as a Vaishnava Brahmin. Once he enters inside he can have the darshan of marriage precedings of Lord Siva.
Agastiyar did as he was told by Murugan and he was able to enter inside the temple easily.
To his surprise he saw Vishnu instead of Siva. He was worried and he touched the Vishnu idol on its head, closed his eyes and started praying. The big idol of Vishnu started decresing and turned into Siva Lingam and he was able to look into the marriage procedings of Lord Siva. There is a mark of Agastiya muni’s fingers on the Siva Lingam in this place.
Sambandhar, Navakkuarasar and Manikkavachakar sang hymns on Lord Siva of this place.
