Sri Sandigeswarar

Among the people who chant the vedas in that town thiruch cheynyalur came a person called echcha thaththan in the kashyapa gothram (tradition founded by sage kashayapar). He had a son named vichara chrumanar . Like the bud that gets the scent of the flower as it blossoms he experienced the vedic knowledge as a continuation of his previous birth's knowledge when he became five. When he was seven they did the upanayanam ritual for him. To the wonder of others he knew the arts that are worth knowing in his young age, but still as in the tradition he went to the school. That small aged, wide knowledged prodigy realised that, "The ultimate thing is the Holy feet that dances in the ambalam ". In the bliss of slavery to the shiva who sang the vedas, his love for Him multiplied as an avalanche.
One day he saw the sheperd hitting a cow in the herd with a rod heavily. His heart which always beats on love, couldn't bear this. The cows are the superior creatures of all in the world. All the holy waters reside in them. They give the five holy substances that the Lord like the most for anointing. They give birth to the raw materials used for the preparation of the holy ash. They belong to the same family of the holy Bull Lord who carries the Lord always. Thinking of these greatness of cows, he told the sheperd that from then on he would take over the control of that cows. He took such great care of the cows that the cows came to this child instead of their calfs, and started giving milk automatically without anybody sucking it out. This became an indication to him for the anointment of the Lord who best likes the bathing in holy substances than anything else as worship. With the enthusiasm to worship the Almighty that gives the perinnial bliss to the worshipper, he made a form of god, constructed a temple out of the sand as a play. He brought the leaves and flowers from the shrubs surrounding to offer to the matted hair of the Lord. When he went to the cows they all gave him a lot of milk. Putting his heart under Lord's feet, the flowers over His golden hair, he started anointing the milk like sweet God with milk and his love replacing the other substances that were not available to him for the worship. The cows gave the same amount of milk to their houses as well in spite of giving for the worship of the small but adorable devotee. This devotion and worship grew as the days grew.
One day a passerby, who had no sight to see the God, saw this and told the people that the young vEdic boy is wasting the milk pouring to the sand (!) The town counsil enquired echcha thaththan about this. After our nayanar started from home with the cows, he followed without our nayanar noting it and hid over a tree.

Unable realise the dedication of his young son and appreciate it, he saw only through the mask of his own defined duty. Hence angered heavily, he beat the nayanar heavily many times. But what nayanar was doing was not just a kid's play. It was the thapas that is full of love. He knew then nothing but shiva, the milk that He enjoys. The beating never pained him. He was well out of bodily feelings and was in the state of bliss. Irked by this echcha thaththan kicked the milk pot that he was pouring on Lord's head. Our nayanar realised that it was his father who did that crime. But in complete neutrality he realised that . When a person does a sinful deed against the Lord it should not matter what the relationship is, but misdeed is misdeed. He took a stick that lied nearby. It became an axe. He threw it on echcha thaththan, which cut his legs that did the sinful deed and disturbed the worship. He fell down on the sand. The loveful devotee continued the worship.

The Lord delighted by the impartial behavior of his love came on the holy Bull accompanied by His consort with the praise of the sages and the chanting of vedas. The kid prostrated the King of love. mahadeva took, hugged and kissed him, "You punished even your father for My service. Now I am your father". The importance he gave to the service of the Lord made the God who trancedes everything to be his father. By age he was young, but he taught the entire world the lesson of service. The child who was touched by the Lord of luminent form appeared with the luminance of thousands of Suns. The Lord of universe made him the head of His devotees and said, "Everything the vessels of food, the ornamets and dress that are offered are for you after my usage, and you are given the great name "chandIshan" " and crowned his shining hair with the konrai garland with the crescent in it. (He got a form of liberation called sarupyam where the liberated soul gets the appearence of the Lord with three eyes, crescent crown, axe and deer and bull vehicle.) Amidst the flower rain by the people of heaven and praise by the good hearted, with the path of shaivam illuminated he accompanied the Lord. His father who was corrected also got the shivaloka entry with the family. Let his fame be hailed who became the son of the Lord for the great dead. Let the impartial nature of chandesha nayanar's service and his excellent love for the crescent crowned shiva stay in the mind.