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Purandaradasa

Purandaradasa Sangita Pitamaha   Purandaradasa (1484-1564) was born as Srinivasa Nayakain Purandaragherda (Maharashtra) to a wealthy merchant Varadappa. He was well educated, skilled in Kannada, Sanskrit, and sacred music. His wife Saraswati bai was very religious. He became a pawnbroker and was known as “navakoti narayana”. A very miserly man, he was uplifted when a […]

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