page_title: Mailam
section_title: About pond
hierarchical_section_title: Mailam / About pond
caption_attribution_description: English: Temple Pond ( 1000 years older)
context_page_description: Mayilam or Mailam is a village near Tindivanam and it is famous for the Mayilam Murugan Temple.
  Mayilam is located fifteen kilometres from Tindivanam and thirty from Pondicherry. The temple, situated on a small hill, is connected with a village on the Coromandel coast, Bomayapalaiyam, very near Pondicherry, where a Vera Saiva mutt is found. According to the name, bomma or bomme, derived from brāhmana. This was a village donated to Brahmans, as is confirmed by the sthala purāna.in which Bomayapalaiyam is also named Brahmapuram.
  The legend of this kshetra begins with the end of Surapadma’s atrocious rule and his tearful appeal to Lord to accept him as his mount. According to sthalapurana, Surapadma, though fought against Muruga with all his might combining the tactile of asuramayopaya, was routed in the end. When he was about be slain, he appealed to the Lord to accept him as his vehicle, and he would serve him with fidelity.
  Moved by the tearful appeals, the Lord ordered him to do meditation with great steadfastness taking the shape of peacock on the bank of Varaha near Mayilamalai. Nodding, he continued his appeal to the Lord to dwell for ever on the same hill. It was granted.
context_section_description: This pond is mentioned that it is more than 1000 years old. In this pond Balasiddhar  took holy dip.
caption: Temple Pond ( more than 1000 years older)
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