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Vayu the God of wind and divine serpent Adisesha claimed supremacy of their prowess in the court of the Devas.  Adisesha covered the peaks of Mount Meru with his thousand heads.  Vayu could not shake the mount. 

 This created panic in the world and yielding to the appeal of Devas, Adisesha gave away one peak.  Vayu shook the peak and took it to south when one small piece fell in this place, according to sthala  purana.

The piece of the peak that fell here became a small mount which was earlier a plain.  The temple is believed to have been built on this mount. 

Lord Shiva appeared here as a Tejolinga as the result of the penance of King Bruhadrajan in Krutha Yuga.  During the Dwapara Yuga, Lord changed all Devas into bees to protect them from the harassment of demon Vruddhasura. 

Lord also advised the Devas to make bee-hives in the sanctum and worship Him.  As bees worshipped here, the Lord is named Madhuvaneswarar (Madhu in Sanskrit means honey), Mother as Madhuvana Nayaki and the place as Madhuvanam. 

There are bees around the place even now but they do not harm anybody.

In a small hill within the temple are shrines for Lords Nardana Ganapathy, Somaskanda, Dakshinamurthy, Annamalayar, Brahma and Mother Durga.

Lord Shiva in the temple is a swayambu lingamurthy. 

 In the prakara down the hill  there are sannidhis for Siddhi Vinayaka, Subramanya, Chandikeswara, Agastheeswarar, Brahmmapureeswarar, Bhairava , Sani Baghwan,  Navagrahas  and Mother Mahalakshmi.

 Lord Nataraja graces from a separate shrine near the sanctum.