Amman is praised by the villagers as Nalla Thai-Good Mother.  There is no sanctorum as such or Vimana and tower in the temple.  The place wherein the box is kept is revered as Ambal.  There are guardian deities as Natrayar, Ladamuni, Madurai Veeran, Karuppusami, Mahamuni and Lord Vinayaka with planets Rahu and Ketu.  No abishek is performed to Lord Vinayaka and other deities.  The Balipeeta at the entrance of the temple is designed as tortoise.

People pray for family welfare and good farm yields.

Women are forbidden to enter the temple.  Some men came to this place in search of a missing girl.  It was a Tuesday night.  Hence, pujas are performed at midnight on Tuesdays only.  The temple is closed on other days.  Only men are admitted into the temple.  Women can worship from outside after bathing in Amaravathi river.  They have to keep the hair untied and come in wet clothes.  After the puja, the nivedhanas as plantain and cereals would be thrown in the front hall, which women catch in their sari Pallu-Thalappu in Tamil.  It is believed that the Goddess blesses them in Prasad form.

In days of yore, there were fishermen in the place.  Once, a fisherman got a box in his net.  He found an idol of Ambal in the box and thought it was Mother’s blessings.  He kept the box under a tree.  Fishermen were worshipping the deity.  Later, they left the place.  The box with Amman got buried under the sand then.

A girl, Nalla Thai by name was grazing the cattle along with others in this place.  She found that one cow was pouring its milk at a spot higher from the ground level.  Out of curiosity, she went to the place and sat there and never got up then.  Villagers came in search of the girl and asked her to come with them but she refused.  She told the villagers that she would like to stay there only.  She also asked them to perform pujas to her on the day they found them in the place.  She immediately became a ray of light-jyoti and disappeared.  The temple was built then.