What a beautiful description of the story panel by panel taking the reader back in yonder. Manickavachagar relives in the sculpter and so does the unknownold lady Vandhi selling rice cake. She got the blessing of the Lord also as shewas agreat devotee offering 'pittu' everyday in herprayers ( pooja). You have aptly quoted Kannadasan's evergreen verse from Madurai Veeran connected to these two vilayadalkal.
Yea - I cud not read the tamil font. For some reason it shows up as some wierd alpha numeric chars... Anyway, i cannot find that song in utube for some reason.