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Rh exchange for the Thali and burnt it with extreme devotion to the Lord. The Lord was pleased and blessed the Saint with riches. Once when he visited the Siva shrine at Tirupanandal, he found the Chola king trying to set aright the Siva Linga which was in bending posture. By his sincere devotion he set it right by pulling it. Later on Thicugnana Sambandar and Tiriru Navukkarasar were his guests for sometime.

Kanjaru is now known by the name Anaithandavapuram. At Kan jaru there lived a Saint called Manakkanjarar. He was blessed with a female child. On her wedding day, the Lord came in the guise of Maviratha (an ascetic belonging to a sect in Saivism) and asked the Saint to give off her tresses to make panchavati (sacred thread of hair.) At once the Saint cut off the locks and offered it to the Mahavratha. By the grace of the Lord the locks grew as before. Then she was given in marriage to another Saint called Eyarkon Kalikkamar.

In a place called Kanamangalam there liviedlived [sic] a Saint called Thayanar. He was a Vellala by Caste. He used to offer rice (of superior Paddy of Yellowish hue), cooked comb greens and tender mango to the Lord daily. Day by day he became poor. He continued to offer them by the wages he got. As the wages he got was always 'Sennel' he offered all paddy to the Lord and remained starving. One day while he was proceeding to the temple with rice etc. owing to fatigue, he fell down. Everything that he carried fell in the cracks of the ground. The Saint thought that he should die for expiation of sin and while he was cutting his throat with a sickle, he heard the champing sound coming from the cracks along with the Lord's Hand obstructing his action. Then the Lord blessed the Saint.