 The specialty of the temple is that there is a practice of "navagandam" (people sacrificing themselves to the goddess).Fridays of the Tamil months of Aadi (July–August), Thai (January–February), as well as Sundays, full moon days, new moon days, and Navratri, are auspicious days for the temple.This is a family deity or folk deity of fourteen clads of the kongu regions as called from the early Chola periods.