Kanu pandigai is the 3rd day of the pongal pandigai series. This falls on the mattu pongal day.Pongal Festival is very traditional one in Kumbakonam area. The Thai(Tamil Month) festival was celebrated in Sarangapani Temple. On the Pongal day , the Thai Ther(Car Festival) was celebrated . The next day was Kanu Festival. On that day, (ie, the next day of Pongal) the Kanu thirumanjanam ( Abisheham) and Kanu Pongal was conducted in this temple. Kanu Festival means that the variety of rices mixed with sweets and other vegitables and put in into the banana leaf/tamarine leaf with sugarcane pieces. In the sarangapani temple, all the Goddess of Perumal came to Sarangapani temple and celebrate the festival on that particular day. Ie, Gomalavalli Thayar (Sarangapani Swami) , Vijayavalli Thayar (Chakrapani swami), Sita Thayar (Ramaswamy), Rukmini Thayar (Krishnan).