Maasi Maham Festival

Maasi Maham Festival (02-03-2017 to 13-03-2017)

The temple is praised by the three Saivite Saints Sundarar, Tirunavukkarasar and Gnanasambandar in their Thevaram hymns. This is the 9th Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu region praised in hymns. Vruddhachalam is as famous as Kasi-Varanasi promising salvation known as Vruddhakasi. It is also claimed that the benefits are more here than Kasi, hence the saying “Kasiyil Veesam Adhigam in Vruddhakasi”. As believed in Kasi, here too Mother Goddess Vruddambika keeps the departed souls on Her lap and fan them with the pallu of her Sari while Lord Shiva chants the Namshivaya mantra in the ears of the dead ensuring his/her salvation, according to Sthalapurana.