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Krishnaraja Wodeyar the 4th, Maharaja of Mysore. This brought good times to this mutt again. At present the 71st Swami and 72nd Swami in the lineage are peethadhipatis at Kudali.
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had been on a teerthayaatre, probably to Kashi. He did not return for a long time, which caused the local chiefs to ask the deputy chief to take up the chief's position. But the chief was alive and so the latter refused. He went away to the old mutt at Kudali. When the chief returned after a long
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