[2] According to the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Kalika Purana and Shakti Peetha Stotram, the toes of the right foot of Goddess Sati fell here, after Lord Vishnu's Sudarshan Chakra splintered her body into many parts to calm down Mahadev's rage during his cosmic dance.

[2] According to mythology, on learning about the death of Sati by self-immolation, Shiva was blinded in rage and started the Tandav Nritya (Dance of Destruction).

To prevent the world from imminent destruction, Lord Vishnu used his Sudarshan Chakra to cut the corpse of Sati into 51 pieces, which fell in various places of the Indian subcontinent.

[8] Pilgrims to the site practice a holy dipping event called Snan Yatra in the temple's Kundupukur tank.

The outer walls of the temple are designed with diamond-shaped chessboard pattern styles of alternating green and white.

Undertaken under the supervision of conservation architect Kalyan Chakraborty and artist Tamal Bhattacharya, they discovered delicate works of terracotta hidden under the ath-chala style roofs, which they tried to preserve, also adding some new designs into the existing framework.

[12] Bhattacharya also discovered many nature-inspired terracotta motifs of flowers, birds and leaves, which had fallen into disrepair over the preceding two centuries.

Since it was difficult to find exact replicas of those terracotta works in the present day, they created some new motifs to replace the irreparably damaged ones.