அருள்மிகு அகிலாண்டேஸ்வரி (ஜம்புகேஸ்வரர்) கோயில், திருவானைக்காவல்Arulmigu Akilandeswari (Jambukeswarar) Temple, Thiruvanaikaval
Sthala Mahātmyam
Akilandeswari is the presiding Goddess at Thiruvanaikaval near Trichy, consort of Jambukeswarar, whose shrine is the Appu (Water) Sthalam among the Pancha Bhoota temples of Shiva. Legend says Parvati, sent to earth to atone, took the form of Akilandeswari and, using water of the Cauvery, fashioned a lingam beneath a white jambu (Venn Naaval) tree and worshipped it — the swayambhu lingam still stands amid a perennial underground spring that keeps it partly submerged. An allied legend tells of Malyavan and Pushpadanta, cursed to be an elephant (yaanai) and a spider, who both worshipped the lingam here, giving the place its name Thiru-aanai-kaa, the sacred elephant grove. So fierce was Akilandeswari's tapas that Shiva gave her upadesa to pacify her; she was adorned with tatanka ear-jewels shaped as Sri Chakras, an installation attributed to Adi Shankara. The daily noon puja, in which the priest dresses as a woman to make offerings, is famous.