Kodiyalam is a small hamlet situated on the banks of river Kaveri in Tamil Nadu (in Tiruchirappalli District - near Musiri). This village has many traditions of having given to the world many top eminents in the field of hindu mythology. The village has in itself a very quite atmosphere with cattle fields around gives a eye cathing greeneries and typical Indian village households. This village is famous for its Navaneetha Krishna Temple. A quite and very modest temple has very long story behind and has left many indellible footprints of famous saints and rishis of ancient India.

Among the eminents of Kodiyalan traditions is Kodiyalam Vasudeva Iyengar which has given this earth many believers of Hindu . especially Vadagalai Dharma Shastra. ( by Vatsan)

Kodiyalam Vasudeva Iyengar was a great connoisure of carnatic music and encouraged great many musicians of his times to perform at his village. Since music was patronized by maharajas and zamindars in olden days, the transition had to happen to support by the common folk after independence. People like Vasudeva Iyengar were instrumental in this transition. For every marriage festival in the Kodiyalam family, musicians of repute were invited and they came over to the village and gave performances and were given ample remuneration by the Iyengar.

He was a reputed philanthrofist who helped to maintain the cultural life in the surrounding areas of his village. The family also had connections with other traditional families living in Srivilliputhur, Kumbakonam and Srirangam, which were also important traditional cutural centers of Tamilnadu.

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My own great -great grandfather Kodiyalam Vasudeva Iyengar, the proud landowner of Kodiyalam village, near Mannargudi, Tamilnadu., '''Anitha Ratnam''' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Ratnam

http://anita-ratnam.blogspot.in/2010/05/return-of-uttara-yogi.html

Kodiyalam Vasudeva Iyengar. He was popularly known as the Zamindar of Kodiyalam and was very well known among the ruling British and represented the landed genre in the Council. After Sri Vasudeva's (Nagai Japta )passing, the Nagai Japata community gradually broke up, but its traditions were preserved in the Kodiyalam Iyengar family. Kodiyalam Vasudeva Iyengar, who was born just before, Sri Vasudeva's passing, and who became a devotee of the yogin after his marriage to the youngest sister of Sri Vasudeva's wife, told his sons Rangaswami and Srinivasa about Sri Vasudeva's prophecy concerning the uttara yogi.2 http://www.sriaurobindoashram.com/Content.aspx?ContentURL=_StaticCo...

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Letter of Sri Aurobindo, date unknown. Published in On Himself, p. 373.

The Yogi from the North (Uttara Yogi) was my own name given to me because of a prediction made long ago by a famous Tamil Yogi, that thirty years later (agreeing with the time of my arrival) a Yogi from the North would come as a fugitive to the South and practise there an integral Yoga (Poorna Yoga), and this would be one sign of the approaching liberty of India. He gave three utterances as the mark by which this Yogi could be recognised and all these were found in the letters to my wife.

1 Letter to his wife '''Mrinalini Ghose''', 30 August 1905 (English translation published in A. B. Purani, The Life of Sri Aurobindo (1978), 81-83). The "three madnesses" were (1) the belief that "the accomplishments, genius, higher education and learning and wealth that God has given me are his", (2) that "by whatever means I must have the direct vision of God", (3) that "while others look upon their country as an inert piece of matter... I look upon my country as the Mother". 2- Sri Aurobindo