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Country
  
India

District
  
Tirunelvelli

Nearest city
  
Tirunelvelli

State
  
Tamil Nadu

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Kizhanatham is a village near Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu India.

The Pincode of Kizhanatham is 627353.

It consist of two parts Vellakovil and kizhanatham. Kizhanatham as it now stands has a very old temple dedicated to Sri Venugopalaswamy with his consorts Rukmini and Satyabhama. Unlike other Venugopalaswamy shrines, the presiding deity has his head tilted backwards, in a fully abosrbed mode of flute rendition which is not seen elsewhere.

There are many famous personalities from this small hamlet, notable among them are industrialist Sri N Krishnan ("Yenkay"), Rao Bahadur Kizhanatham Anantanarayanan Krishna Aiyangar (Rao Bahadur K A Krishna Aiyangar) of Alleppey who was a very famous lawyer of the early 1900s. Alleppey Krishna Aiyangar is the founder of the famous Sanathana Dharma Vidyala (SDV) Schools (1906).

References

Kizhanatham Wikipedia