History

The Siva temple in Melancode is eight temple in order. Adjacent to this Temple is the Melancode Esakkiamman Temple. Again, beside this temple is the Veli Malai Kumaracoil. In Kumaracoil, we have separate sanctum sanctorum for Lord Siva and Lord Nadaraja.

There is a separate sanctorum for the Vankai tree here. According to Research, this is one of the six abods mentioned by Nakkeerar.