Srikantadatta Narasihmaraja Wodeyar hurt his leg while getting into the Belli Pallakki on Vijaya dashami last Thursday.

A prediction made a couple of months ago, talked of bad luck to the scion of the  royal family.

Coincidence?  Maybe, but villagers in and around Srirangpatna took no chances. They started shifting to safer places even before the incident because of a Kodi Mutt prediction.

Moving out

The villagers panicked following a flood prediction by the Kodi Mutt, while officials at the KRS dam said there was nothing to fear as all the sluice gates of the dam are working well.

However, the villagers still feared that the prediction of one of sluice gates collapsing would come true.
They moved to places near Mysore, which wouldn't be flooded by the dam water. 

"The prediction has put life in some villages out of gear," said Mahadev, a journalist.

"People would rather go with the words of Kodi Mutt than those of engineers. This had caused panic."

Baseless

Kodi Mutt, a place that makes predictions through inscriptions on palm leaves, had, in August, predicted bad luck to the royal family, that would be indicated by a white crow drinking water from the dam. 

It also predicted that one of 152 sluice gates in KRS dam would collapse and there would be floods.  That would drown some villages, including Ranganthittu and Srirangapatna.

About 15 families in and around Srirangapatna had reportedly vacated their homes, a few days before the end of the Dasara celebrations.

A team of engineers had already repaired a crack of about 70 feet at the base of one of sluice gates.