This temple dedicated to Nagaraja, the serpant God, is situated at a distance of shrines dedicated to Krishna and siva with in this temple.

The sanctum of the temple is surrounded by mud walls and gas over it a simple thatched roof. The prasadam distributed here is only sand which is scooped out of the keity is snshrined.

The garden of the temple is famous for its Naga flower ( Couripita gynensis ) a symbolic representation of Nagaraja.

People through her even Sunday and on Ayilyam days with offerings of milk. It is said that many serpents live all round the temple, but ther has been no fetal case of snadebites.

The annual festival is conducted in the month of Thai but all the Sundays in the month of Avani attract multitudes of cevotees, especially women,from all parts of the kanyakumari district.

It is also said that this is originally a Jain temple . This belief is supported by the fact that the images of Mahavira and Parswanatha are seen pillars of this temple.