KARUMBAIRAM PILLAIYAR KOIL TEMPLE HISTORY – YAGASALA POOJA
As the story goes, the Vinayaka - Lord’s abidance here is founded on a challenge thrown to the Lord in a little Brahmin-guy’s guise, by a trader in sugarcanes who brought thousands in a cart load for sale. The little boy asked for one. Denied, he vanished in to the sacred site and the sap of the canes went dry. Realising his mistake, repenting, contrife of heart, the trader tprayed the Lord and Sri Vinayaka “refilled” his thousand’s of sugar canes with the sweet-sap that turned them proper.He built a temple of yore and workshiped the Lord of Lords - Vinayaka here. Hence the name Karumbairam Konda Vinayakar (literally Vinayaka who consumed a thousand sugarcanes) http://www.heritagetown.org/kumbakonam.html