அருள்மிகு அபிராமி (அமிர்தகடேஸ்வரர்) கோயில், திருக்கடையூர்Arulmigu Abirami (Amirthakadeswarar) Temple, Thirukkadaiyur

Sthala Mahātmyam

The Amirthakadeswarar–Abirami Temple at Thirukkadaiyur is dedicated to Shiva as Amirthakadeswarar (Kalasamhara Murti, conqueror of death) and his consort Abirami, and is a Paadal Petra Sthalam praised in the Tevaram. Two great legends sanctify it. In the first, the boy Markandeya, fated to die at sixteen, worshipped here; when Yama cast his noose, Shiva burst from the lingam and slew Death, granting the boy eternal youth — hence Mrityunjaya. In the second, the devotee Abirami Bhattar, lost in vision of the Goddess, declared a new-moon day to be full moon before the ruler; to save her devotee, Abirami flung her earring into the sky as a radiant full moon while he sang the immortal Abirami Anthadhi, a garland of a hundred verses, at whose seventy-ninth verse she appeared. The temple is renowned for conducting Shashtiabdapoorthi, Bheemaratha and Sathabhishekam ceremonies — auspicious 60th, 70th and 80th-year remarriage rites believed to ward off untimely death.