"The Madurai Sthanikar Varalaru stated, In the month of Ani of S. 1245 (1323 AD) the Padshah vasal mantri Adi Sultan and Malukka Nemiyar came from Delhi with 60,000 horses, destroyed Siva and Visnu temples and tanks, plundered temple treasuries (sribhandaram), mutilated images (bimbam) and reached Trichinopoly. There also the sthanikas were removed and temples were destroyed. Hearing these, king Valal Vilitturangum Parakrama Pandya was alarmed and left the fort of Kalaiyarkoyil. Unable to stay in the city without the king’s protection, the sthanikas of the temple of Madurai left the city after making certain provisions for the protection of the deity. They made a kilikkundu for the Svami in the garbhagriha, raised earth mounds, blocked the garbhagriha entrance with a stone wall and set up another Linga in the ardha mandapa. They did astabhandana for the Goddess (Mulappernacciyar) and set up the Goddess on the upper storey of the vimana. They did pupadanam (buried in the ground) for the utsav vigrahas, Ilaiya Nayinar and other vigrahas near Mucukundisvaramudaiyar shrine. The Soliya, Kulasekharapperumal, who was formerly doing puja in the Kariyamanikka Perumal Temple, was left in charge of the Madurai temple and the conduct of its worship. Then, taking the gold vigraha of the God and a few other gold vigrahas, the sthanikas left Madurai, and reached the Kilukiluppai forest in Nanjilnadu ."