Nayampalli village

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Nayampalli: There is avillage known as Nayampalli or Neyampalli near Udupi. The Neyampalli village name has been translated as Ghrithavalli by Narayan Pandit. (The words ‘gritha’(Sanskrit) or ‘neyi’ನೈಯಿ (Tulu) means clarifed butter.However, the original name of the village appears to be ‘Nāyampalli ‘(village of the dog) rather than village of the refined butter. There are several villages in southern India named after dogs in the antiquity. Southworth has cited ‘Napalli’ or ‘Navalli’ from Maharastra as named after a dog.
Wonderful as Vasudeva was, his father out of filial affection wanted to give him an education. Thus he performed the aksara abhyasam, the ceremony with which the child begins his schooling. One day, soon after his first studies, Vasudeva had a chance to test his learning. In the nearby village of Nayampalli a brahmin named Siva was delivering lectures on the Puranas and Vasudeva's parents had brought the young child with them to attend the discourse. A difficult passage came and the brahmin was visibly perplexed, unable to expound the clear meaning of the text. He spoke anyway and suddenly Vasudeva also spoke up revealing the true intent of the aphorism to the astonishment of the assembly.