• Sri Adi Sankara visited the Thiruvottiyur temple in 8 A.D. He put an end to the ritual of offering sacrifices at the Vattapparai Amman shrine and incepted a Sri Chakra. He also appointed a Kerala Namboodri to perform puja at this shrine. Sri Sankara composed the Thirupurasundari Ashtakam, comprising of 8 slokas.
• Pattinathar visited this temple in 9 A.D. He was promised Mukthi at the town where the sugar cane he held tasted sweet. When he reached Thiruvottiyur, the cane tasted sweet indicating that this was the place suitable to attain samadhi. He walked along the seashore by the temple. Fisher boys were playing by the shore. He called them to play a game. Pattinathar asked them to bury him and then call for him. After they had covered him completely, they called him and he appeared from the opposite direction and greeted them. They buried him in the sand again. He walked towards them from another direction. They buried him for the third time. They called and they called. He never came back. On digging up the place they had buried him they found nothing but shivalinga. He had attained Mukthi. Pattinathar has composed several poems on Otriyur’s God, Sri Thiagarajaswamy. His shrine called Pattinathar Samadhi still stands by the shores of Thiruvottiyur.
• In 12 A.D. Kambar learnt the Ramayana from Pandit Sathuranana all day and composed poems in Tamil by night. Pandit Sathuranana a Keralite was well versed in many languages. Stone inscriptions say that many disciples studied various scriptures at the Sathuranana madam. Kambar learnt Valmiki’s Ramayana from him. Legends say that Vattapparai Amman appeared before Kamban with a torch of fire and bade him to compose a poem on her.
• Kalamegha Pulavar, in 14 A.D. has composed two sladais on Thiagarajaswamy, His Grace and Benevolence.
• Umapathi Sivachariar has composed Kali Vannbas on Shiva and Otriyur.
• In 15 A.D. Arunagirinathar has sung two Thirupugazhs.
• In the second century A.D. the twins Elam Surian who had lost his sight and Mudhu Surian who had lost his legs, composed several verses on Sri Thiagarajaswamy.
• In 18 A.D. Sri Thyagaraja, the great music composer, the first among the Sangeetha Mummurthigal, composed a set of Pancharatna Keerthanas on Vadivudai Amman.
• Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar, the second among the Sangeetha Mummurthigal composed a keerthana ‘Adipureeswaram’ on Otriyur and its reigning deity.
• In 16 A.D. Otri Gnanapragasar composed ‘Thiruvottiyur stalapurana’ in chaste Tamil verse.
• From 1835 to 1858, Sri Ramalinga Adigalar visited Otriyur everyday for 23 years and received the blessings of Sri Thiagarajaswamy. Sri Ramalinga Adigalar was living with his brother in Parrys’ Chennai. He visited the temple at Kanda Kottam and Thiruvottiyur everyday. From the age of 12, Adigalar walked all the way from home to Otriyur and back, until the age of 35, when he passed away. It is said that once when he was caught in the rains and reached Chennai late after a tiring walk from Otriyur he lay down hungry and fatigued in the thinnai, the frontal porch outside his house. He did not want to wake up his sister-in-law late in the night and ask her to serve food. Vadivudai Amman herself woke him from his sleep and served him food in the form of Adigalar’s sister-in-law. Adigalar slept appeased. After some time, his sister-in-law woke up realizing that Ramalingar would be hungry and had to be served food. She came out of the house and woke up Ramalingar to have dinner. In a surprised tone, he told her that only then she had awaken him and given him his dinner. His sister-in-law was puzzled. Only then did Adigalar realize that the goddess Herself had served him food. Adigalar sings in verse of this diving experience. Sri Ramalinga Adigalar has composed 31 verses on Shiva titled Ezhuttariyum Perumal Maalai’ and 102 verses on Shakthi titled ‘Vadivudai Manikka Maalai’.
• Pamban Swamigal in 1850 sang several verses on Otriyur, which he visited regularly.
• On June 27th 1898 Maraimalai Adigal was cured of his indecipherable abdominal malaise due to the grace of the Murugan in the ‘Arul Jothi Murugan’ shrine at the temple. He composed the ‘Thiruvottiyur Murugan Mummanikkovai’ in 30 verses.
• Sri Chidambaranatha Munivar has sung a Kshetrakkovai in Pillai Thamizhil eulogizing Thiruvottiyur’s Murugan.
• Sri Padampakka Natha Pulavar has composed 32 poems entitled ‘Thiruvottiyur Senguntha Vinayagar Maalai’.
• Vedarishi Kabali Sastrigal (1806 – 1853) visited the Vadivudai Amman shrine everyday and sat meditating there, chanting her name 1008 times. One day he had a vision of Her. He composed ‘Mahamanustavam’ 32 slokas in Sanskrit on Vadivudai Amman.
• Pulavar N. Natarajan has composed ‘Vadivudai Thiruppalli Ezhucchi’ in 80 verses.
• Arunkavi Sadhu Ram Swmigal has written ‘Vadivudai Amman Viruttam’ in 15 verses.