The sanctum sanctorum and the mandaps speak volumes of the aesthetic sense and architectural skill of ancient sculptors of Tamilnadu.  The entire beauty of the temple lies in the Nanipalli Kodi Vattam with a huge Lord Dakshinamurthy, Lords Subramanya, Brahmma, Lingodhbava and Chandikeswara with his consort.  The temple was built by the ancestor of Raja Raja Chozha, king Panranthaga Chozha.

People pray to Lord Kalyana Sundareswara for wedding boon and Lord Nattrunai Appar for excellence in education and prosperity.

The sanctum sanctorum is very big in size that facilitated an elephant to worship Lord directly inside.  There are two Ambicas in the temples, Mother Parvatharaja Puthri and Mother Malayan Madanthai.  Lord Shiva granted His wedding darshan to Lord Vinayaka and Sage Agasthya.  Mother is on the right of the Lord.  Lord Kalyanasundarar graces with Mother Ambica from another shrine in the temple.

Cauvery, though flows eastward turns here westward.  This is called Basvamangini.  Lord Vinayaka had to incur a dosha as he toppled the Kamandala-hand bowl of Sage Agasthya.  For relief, he bathed in a tank here.  The place came to be known as Pon Sei which later changed as Punjai.  While Mother Durga appears in Shiva temples standing on the head of a buffalo, She graces here with a deer and a lion destroying the demons Sumba and Nisumba.

This is the place of birth of Baghvathi Ammayar, mother of Saint Tirugnana Sambandar.  He sang the praise of Lord of the temple sitting on the loving shoulders of his father Shivapada Hrudhayar.  The place was a desert-Palai in Tamil.  Yet, as wished by the devotees, he described this place as Neidhal-sea shore region.