The villagers had done a remarkable job on removing the shrubs! A wire was drawn from the electric post nearby and had been put up at the shrine. One person keeps coming in day time to have an abhishekam and offers some prasdam and flowers. The day we went there again,Mr.Ramamurthy gathered a group of youngsters who helped us in fixing garlic on all nook and corner of the temple (to drive away snakes) and taught them Shiva Mandiram and Thiruvasagam. They all repeated that in chorus. All were given free booklets by him and they were asked to chant this daily and on 16th April, when a medical camp would be conducted in this place, the boys were to compete with each other, and we would decide the best person in that bunch and give themaway prizes. This made the children cheer and shout with joy.\

Mr.Ramamurthy had brought in stapathi to take the dimensions and measurements for the temple to be built and also discussed to bring in JCT excavators to unearth all land around the temple. Also we discussed about fixing some snake charmers to enter the sanctum sanctorum, pull out manually all the soil, clean the place and discover back the floor of the shrine! The task has been assigned for 6th of April, where 2 of our members would attend to supervise the JCT excavation.

Mr.Ramamurthy also talked of bringing ourselves a new Amman idol as he believes that the real statue would not have been thrown into the temple pond. The description given by Bharati an elderly person, did not tally with the Agama sastra size, how the amman should be and in all probability it could be Chandikesawarar or Dhakshinamurthy. And Dr.Subramaniam, of LDSF <http://www.bnaiyer.com/LDSF> had already decided that this temple would be reconstructed with their trust's funds and be converted into a great place of worship compared to Maangadu! So, temple cleaning members were relieved that atlast the temple is now in safe hand and we would move further for other places. The day was so hectic, as Mr.Ramamurthy had already got information about various other temples in nearby areas and we were asked to accompany him and record the details of the location, the name of the Gods, temples history.