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47.Name a composer who is called the father of padams (more than one composer is credited with this title)?

Kshetrajna or Kshetrayya is comsidered by many to be the father of Padams (same claims have been made of Muthuthandavar as well). He was born in Muvapuri in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh.

48.Who wrote the Kshetrayya Pancharathnams?

He is supposed to have composed 4,200 padams of which only about 125 are available today. Five of these padams were composed in praise of King Vijayaraghava Naik of Thanjavur and are known as "Vijayaraghava Pancharathnam" or "Kshetrayya Pancharathnams."

49.Who is the author of Krishna Leela Tharangini?

Narayana Teertha wrote the famous "Sri Krishna Leela Tharangini," a dance-drama in praise of Lord Krishna. It was written in Sanksrit and consisted of twelve tarangas. The Krishna Leela Tharangini is nothing but the essence of Bhagavad Gita composed into songs.The Krishna Leela Tharangini is also an opera and takes us, through dance-drama, through the lives of Lord Krishna since his birth throuogh his marriage with Rukmini. The ragas that Narayana Theertha selected and used brings out the emotions

50.Who wrote the musical operas, Parijatha Abaharanam and Haribhakthi Sundarnavam?

Narayana Teertha also supposed to have composed two other operas, "Parijatha Abaharanam" and "Haribhakthi Sundarnavam."

53.Which composer is called the Pitha Maha (Great Father) of Carnatic Music?
Purandaradasa is said to have codified or systematized the teaching of music and it is his contributions that allows every student to go through the hierarchical process of learning music starting from Sarali Varisai, Janta Varisai, Thattu Varisai, etc. For this reason, Purandaradasa is called the Pitha Maha of Carnatic music or the Great Father of Carnatic Music.

54.Name a popular varnam written by Pachimiriyam Adiyappa.

Viriboni varnam in Bhairavi ragam is composed by Pachimiriyam Adiyappa.

55.Who is the composer of Rama Nataka Keerthanaigal?

Arunachala Kavirayar based on the Ramayana Arunachala Kavirayar composed the "Rama Nataka Keerthanaigal" .

57.What is a Vadi Swara?

Vadi Swara is an important or predominant note in a raga. This note will repeated several times and emphasized during the rendering of a raga

58.What is a Samvadi swara?

Samvadi Swara is the next important note after Vadi swara. If two notes are related to each other as Sa or Shadjam and Pa or Panchamam, they are called samvadi swaras; consonance of the fifth or the fourth note. For example, Shadja and Suddha Madhyama, Suddha Rishabha and Suddha Dhaivata, Suddha Gandhara and Suddha Nishadha, Sadaharana Gandhara and Kaisiki Nishada, Antara Gandhara and Kakali Nishada, Suddha Rishaba and Prati Madhyama are samvadi swaras.

59.What is a Vivadi Swara?

Vivadi Swara: If between two swara, there is only one sruti (conflicting), they are called Vivadi Swaras

Originally posted by: egghatcher

WHAMMM bAMMMMM YOU HIT THE NAIL PUNJINIJI........ with the african origin connection

That is not an eurocentric outburst...... its a proven fact... and also the fact that migration went in three directions originally....... one to what we now know as europe the other to caucasian mountains and siberia and the third germane to us came through the indus valley civilization.. and beyond much southbound......... during ashokas time ( more during his lamenting period post kalinga disaster0 there was an upsurge of migration with buddhas tenets ........and at this time the boats were sent all over ......we are aware of the influence in malaysia thailand ......... and recently it was discovered conclusively that the migration made it all the way to the down under land viz australia........ well before Captain james cook was born and peeing in his breeches..

dna proves this statement.

I came across this in India abroad..one of the reader posted a letter there and Iam typing it here...

It was beleived that homo sapiens arose as a new species in Africa and subsiquently spread.But data from other resources- such as Vinayak Eswaran, Henery Harpending and alan rogers- sugests that humans has assimilated genetic material from non -african sources abut 200,000 years ago.

these humans , settled in India, spread therir sails and went north,east and west.

The civilization found buried at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro preceded the Aryan civilization and the Dravidian civilization preceeded the Harappa and Mohenjo Daro civilization. Note also that the architecture of Mohanjo Daro and Machu Pichu in Peru have remarkable similarity.

There was a town named Urk in Mesopotamia- a word in tamil that means melting, making it a metallurgy- based town.The towns of Ramallah and ramadi in Iraq are named after the epic hero Rama; Ramadi is found in the district of Anbar-friend in tamil. There is Amman-the name of diety Kali in tamil lore- jorden;and there are words of tamil origin in ancient celtic languages of Ireland. All tese pont to some common roots.

The Dravidiains , after visiting these regions and finding nothing tehre are found n their country, travelled back to India.

Dr VK Kashyap avers that there is 'no clear genetic evidence for the intrusion of Indo-Aryan people into India. The eurocentric view that Aryans invaded Inmdia from Central Asia lacks credence.

It was actually the return of the Dravidians to Indiqa. There are many loose ends to the tie and histories to be rewritten

I see you have tried to answer some questions...good..you are the only one who has actually attempted to do 😆 😆 ..I have written answers to some of them..in later pages..see if you agree with me