Sage Narada once visited the heavenly court of Shiva at Mount Kailash to present to him an organic product, the gyana-Palam (truly, the product of information), that held in it the mixture of insight. Upon Shiva communicating his expectation of isolating the natural product between his two children, Ganesha and Murugan, the sage directed against cutting it. 

He chose to grant it to whichever of his two children originally circumnavigated the world threefold. Acknowledging the demand, Karthikeya began his excursion around the world on his mount peacock. Notwithstanding, Ganesha, who deduced that the world was close to his folks Shiva and Shakti joined, circumambulated them. Satisfied with their child's insight, Shiva granted the natural product to Ganesha. 

At the point when Kartikeya returned, he was enraged to discover that his endeavors had been futile. He left Kailash and took up his habitation in the Palani slopes in South India. It is accepted that Karthikeya wanted to get developed from childhood and subsequently decided to stay as a loner and disposed of every one of his robes and decorations. He went into reflection to think about himself.

According to another legend, when all sages and divine beings gathered in Kailash, the dwelling place of Shiva. It brought about the inclining of earth towards one course. Shiva asked sage Agathiyar to move towards the South to adjust the tilt. Agastya utilized a devil by name Ettumba to convey two slopes in his shoulders to be put in the South. 

The evil presence conveyed the slopes down south and rested in a spot. At the point when he attempted to lift one of the slopes, it didn't move and he found a youngster remaining at the head of the slope not permitting it to be moved. The devil attempted to assault the youngster yet was vanquished. Sage Agastya recognized the youngster as Murugan (Karthikeya) and requested that he pardon the evil spirit. 

Murugan promptly did as such and let the slope stay there at Palani. It is training followed in the cutting edge times where individuals convey milk in both their shoulders as a commitment to satisfy the Lord. The evil spirit conveyed the other slope to Swamimalai, which is one more of the six homesteads of Lord Murugan.