One day Bhattar's eldest daughter came to Nanjeeyar's mutt and asked him if he had any dry twigs for fire. Nanjeeyar looked around and said that he did not have any. Later he found that he did have some twigs in another area in the mutt. Immediately he gathered them and took them to Bhattar's home.

Seeing this, Bhattar asked Nanjeeyar "Did you have to come yourself? Could you not have sent this with someone else?"

Nanjeeyar replied "Since it was I who sinned by saying that I did not have these with me, I should get rid of that sin myself".