The temple has a close relationship with Mysore royal family.  In early days, the king designate in the family, will go to Kasi, bring a Linga from there and perform the puja in this temple and only then assume power and other responsibilities, it is said.  There is another Shiva temple nearby in Tirumuruganpoondi praised in Thevaram hymns.  Sri Anjaneya graces at the entrance of the temple.  There is a monkey hanging upside down sculpted on a pillar.  Lord Vinayaka graces with 63 Nayanmars.  There are shrines for Lords Brahmma and Lord Viswanatha with Mother Visalakshi.

The devotee praying to Lord here will have total salvation.  He/she will have no rebirth.  They will live with fame during their life time.  The intensity of Saturn adverse aspects would come down considerably if those such affected pray to Sani Bhagwan in the temple.

Saint Sundarar was passing through a stree in Avinahsi.  He hear joyous sounds celebrations in a house where the holy thread ceremony – Upanayanm – from a house and saw also the sad faces of a couple in the opposite house.  He came to know that the boys of the two houses were close friends.  While playing near a tank around the temple, one boy was dragged by the crocodile in the tank and died.  If alive, his upanayanam was also due to be conducted together.

Sage Sundarar immediately went to the temple and demanded the Lord to direct the crocodile to give back the boy it swallowed three years ago when he was four.  He prayed to Lord with a Pathigam (10 verses).  As he sang the fourth stanza begging the Lord to direct the crocodile to return the boy, to the joy of all around him, the crocodile brought back the boy with the growth he would have at the age of seven.  Sundarar took the boy to the parents and arranged his upanayanam too.  This is a great event related with this temple.  During the Panguni Uthiram festival in March-April, Mudalai Vai Pillai – boy in the grip of the crocodile – utswav is celebrated for three days.