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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
K. NARAYANASWAMY AIYAR - BRIEF
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
K. Narayanaswamy Aiyer, son of Krishnaswami
Aiyer, was born at Kazhukanimattam Village,
Tanjavur District, South India, in the year I854. He
was the second of four brothers, three of whom
occupied fairly comfortable positions in life. One of
them was the late K. Veeraswami Aiyer, a
prominent Vakil of Tiruvarur in the early twenties
of this century, and another, an engineer of the
Public Works Department of the Government.
Educated at his village school at Kazhukanimattam
and later at the Kumbakonam Town High School
and at the Kumbakonam Government Arts
College, he was a first grade pleader at
Kumbakonam and made a reasonably prosperous
living there. He had a son and two daughters.
He joined The Theosophical Society during, the
presidentship of Col. H. S. Olcott and travelled
very widely all over India including far places like
Kabul and Srinagar at a time when
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