01A thousand eyes
Indra, cursed by Maharshi Gautama, went to Brahma for a way out, and Brahma sent him to Kurumanakkudi to bathe in its tirtha and worship. The marks of the curse on his body became a thousand eyes, and so the Lord is Kannayiranathar, he of the thousand eyes; the swayambhu linga, with a tall bana, has many small eye-like hollows on its surface. Bhagwan Vishnu as Vamana, the dwarf, also worshipped here, and the temple reads the village name as kuru-mana-kudi, the place of the small brahmachari. Sambandar’s padigam is in the Tevaram. Indra Theertham lies outside, and the ceiling above the Devi’s shrine is carved with the twelve signs of the zodiac.
About 5 km from Vaitheeswaran Koil; take the Bhagasalai turn on the Vaitheeswaran Koil–Mayiladuthurai road.
