We go at 9pm when the temple is on the verge of closing. The lights begin to go off as we stand there, the moola Ambal has her curtain drawn and Sriram Gurukkal briskly walks multiples times around the Pecchayiamman-Madurai Veeran shrines with lemons in hand – perhaps a closing rite involving a mouna vratham which we have not observed before? Angalamman is right there in her alankara mandapam, today in the form of Meenakshi – the same alankaram as Nandhikeswara’s. Behind her we notice the Ardhanariswara murti, which turns out to be the same murti used yesterday for the Harihara alankaram on the Amavasya Unjal.