01Mother and father to a fawn
Amram is the mango, and this was once a mango forest. The temple tells of a sage who, under a curse, was born here as a fawn to a pair of deer. Shiva and Parvati, hunting as a hunter and huntress, freed the parents from their own curse with their arrows, and the fawn was left alone. When night fell and it cried with hunger, the Lord and the Devi came to it in the shape of its mother and father, fed it, and then restored the sage to his own form. A panel over the entrance shows the scene. Because the release came on a Tuesday Chaturthi, that day brings special pujas. In the first three days of Panguni the morning sun reaches the linga. Sambandar’s hymn is in the second Tirumurai.
About 3 km from Lalgudi and 15 km from Tiruchirappalli on the Lalgudi road, with frequent town buses. The Chittirai festival runs fifteen days.
