Lord Sangili Karuppan Images / The trading community of the nattukotai chettiars introduced the worship of murugan in his form as lord kathiresan at matale and was to subsequently build deities such as madasamy, muniandi, kali, madurai veeran, sangili karuppan, vaalraja, vairavar, veerabathran, sudalai madan, and roda.