Temiang Sri Palanimalai Murugan Temple is a unique temple where there is 2 statues of Thandayuthapani. As i have written before this temple was build by Samyammah in the year 1954. But prior to that the temple was a small wooden shrine and it is there she goes on trance and narrates things that is going to happen to her devotees and well wishes, and the place where she cures illness. And at that time there was only a Vel installed in the shrine. One Chetiar came to Malaysia on a business trip visited the temple as he had some major problems in his business back home in India. He heard about Samyammah's powers to solve various problems through he Arul Vaaku and with her bakthi towards Palanimalai Murugan.
One day he came to the temple and there he met Samyammah. Before he could tell her what he is there for Samyamah called him forward and told him some things which he stood dumbfounded on hearing what she was telling as every word was true. And then she told him to do something back home in India. After the prayers had concluded the Cheatiar wanted to do something for the temple. That's when he told that since this is Palanimalai Murugan Temple with only a Vel installed he will send the proper" Karunggal" Granite statue of Palanimalai Murugan( Thandayuthpaani). After saying this he left for India. The problems the Cheatiar faced all was cleared once he went back to India and his business flourished just as what Samyammah said to him here. He custom made a statue exact replica of the Palani Moolavar which was made out of Navapaashanam by Saint Bhogar in emerald colored black granite. He wrote to Samyammah regarding the statue and he told her that he will ship it to the temple. ( Those days there where no aeroplanes transporting goods between India and Malaya( Malaysia as it was know those days) . The Cheatiar sent the Murugan Statue together with his vehicle the Mayil Vahanam. Samyammah was overjoyed and she fixed a auspicious suitable date for the kumbabhishegam.Suitable date was fixed and when the time came near the statue which was sent form India didn't reach the temple. Samyammah got worried and she didn't want the kumbabishegam to take place without a statue. So with the help of her well wishers another Palanimalai Murugan statue ( smaller one) was brought to the temple and she completed the Kumbabishegam.
After several months of the kumbabishegam the original statue which was made for this temple arrived in a big wooden box well packed in vaikol pul together with his Mayil Vahanam statue. Samyammah with the advice of the Sivaacharyar from India installed the Murugan statue behind the moolastanam. She did this because many people wanted the statue for themselves as it was extremely beautiful with very fine carving and a life like look. She didn't want to offend the Cheatiar if one day he comes to the temple only to find the statue not there, she installed it behind. And the reason she didn't change the Moolavar at that time because kumbabishegam was just performed and the Gurukkal said "It's not nice to wake up a person from his leaf after the food has been served". What he meant was the statue had just seen a kumbabishegam and its not proper to change another statue to replace it's place in the moolastanam. Hence he was installed behind the Moolastanam and he was known as Pin Murugan. ( Murugan which is at the back). That is why our temple has 2 Thandayuthapaani statues.
