Its traditional history and legends were compiled into the Sanskrit treatises "Dakshina Kailasa Puranam – Sthala Puranam of Koneswaram", written in 1380 by Jeyaveera Cinkaiariyan, and the "Dakshina Kailasa Manmiam" – three chapters of the "Skanda Puranam" of unknown antiquity – manuscripts of which have been discovered and dated from the 5th – 7th century. It was in the "Puranas" that the shrine first found reference as "Koneiswara Parwatia", motivating Kullakottan Chola who learnt of its sanctity to sail to Trincomalee and develop the temple. The compiler of the Yoga Sutras, Patañjali's place of birth at the temple corroborates Tirumular's "Tirumandhiram", which describes him as hailing from "Then Kailasam" and his self description as a "Gonardiya" from "Gonarda", "a country in the southern and eastern division" of the Indian continent. Both men were ardent disciples of Nandhi. Patanjali famously visited the Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram, where he wrote the "Charana Shrungarahita Stotram" on Nataraja. In "Kanda Puranam", the epic authored by Kachiyappa Sivachariar, Koneswaram is venerated as one of the three foremost Shiva abodes in the world, alongside Thillai Chidambaram Temple and Mount Kailash. The Vishnu-Thirumal shrine of the Koneswaram complex repaired by Kullakottan Chola was referred to as the "Thirukonamalai Macchakeswaram/Macceswaram Kovil" in some Middle Tamil inscriptions such as the Nilaveli inscription of the 10th century, a Tamil rendering of the Sanskrit "Matsyakesvara". In fact, Matsya is the fish incarnation of Vishnu, and this shrine's significance along with that of the third pagoda of the promontory to the goddess is expounded further in the "Dakshina Kailasa Puranam" and the "Thirukonasala Puranam." The temple's "Aayiram Kaal Mandapam" earned it the title "Pagoda of Trincomalee – Temple of a Thousand Columns" among Europeans.