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Local story · 1 telling · contested
Saraswati's forty-eight letters found the Madurai Sangam
Saraswati lingers on the way to bathe in the Ganga and arrives late.
Local story · 2 tellings · contested
The sixty-four games of Shiva at Madurai
Indra, freed of a sin, worships a linga in a kadamba forest.