 Finally, he succumbed to the pangs of hunger and fainted; the pot of water fell on the lingam and broke.Shiva appeared in Pugazh Thunai Nayanar's dream and said that he would leave a gold coin daily as a "daily wage" so that the Nayanar can sustain himself till the end of the famine.Pugazh Thunai Nayanar found a gold coin daily at the foot of Lingam.