He made the spider born again as a king called "Kochengat Chola". He made the elephant the head of his servant team. Shiva graced both of them for their immense devotion to Him. But, both of them succumbed in the ensuing battle. The elephant could not take it and rolled on the ground. It wanted to punish and kill the elephant and waited one day and entered the trunk of the elephant. One day, the spider decided to find out who is destroying its web and found about the elephant. The spider would come the next day and see that the web has been destroyed and spin the web all over again. It will see the web and think it is an eyesore on the lingam and destroy it. The elephant would bring water from Kavery and will do abishekam (bathing the lingam) and puja. So, the spider spun its web and ensured that the leaf etc from the nearby trees don't fall on the lingam and that the lingam was protected to an extent from the elements. The shivalingam was without any roof and was outside and hence was in the midst of rain and hot sun. From the set of people who were with Shiva, two had come down here because of a curse and were born as elephant and a spider. There was a shiva linga under a white jamun tree. The Story of this Temple : A very long time back, this was a place full of white jamun trees.
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