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	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPCIjKRmcQ Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Sri Raagam		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPCIjKRmcQ Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Sri Raagam
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309082605/http://sahityam.net/wiki/Category:Purandaradasa Lyrics and translation of Purandaradasa compositions]		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309082605/http://sahityam.net/wiki/Category:Purandaradasa Lyrics and translation of Purandaradasa compositions]
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	*[http://www.osuri.com/songs/GajaVadanaBeduve.html Gaja Vadana Beduve Gowri Thanaya] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Carnatic Raagam Hamsadhwani		*[http://www.osuri.com/songs/GajaVadanaBeduve.html Gaja Vadana Beduve Gowri Thanaya] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Carnatic Raagam Hamsadhwani
	*{{Citation\|title=Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJVkAAAAMAAJ\|year=2002\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9780195646559}}		*{{Citation\|title=Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJVkAAAAMAAJ\|year=2002\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9780195646559}}
	*KavyaPremi. 1996. ''Purandara Daasa Haadugalu''. Dharwad: Samaja Publishers. Contains ca. 225 songs; in Kannada language.		*KavyaPremi. 1996. ''Purandara Daasa Haadugalu''. Dharwad: Samaja Publishers. Contains ca. 225 songs; in the Kannada language.

	~~==See also==~~
	*[[Haridasa]]
	*[[Madhvacharya]]
	*[[Vyasatirtha]]
	*[[Kanaka Dasa]]
	*[[Annamacharya]]
	*[[Shishunala Sharif]]
	*[[Puttur Narasimha Nayak]]
	*[[Dvaita Vedanta]]
	*[[List of Carnatic composers]]
	*[[List of Carnatic artists]]
	*[[List of Carnatic instrumentalists]]
	*[[Trinity of Carnatic music]]

	==References==		==References==
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	<ref name="MA1991">{{cite journal \| last = Parthasarathy\|first = T. S.\|title = Margadarsi Whom Swati Tirunal followed\| journal = The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras\| volume = 62 \| page = 72 \|year = 1991 \|quote=The great Purandara Dasa was a 'Margadarsi' in many ways although he is generally referred to as the 'Pitamaha' (grandfather) of Carnatic music.}}</ref>		<ref name="MA1991">{{cite journal \| last = Parthasarathy\|first = T. S.\|title = Margadarsi Whom Swati Tirunal followed\| journal = The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras\| volume = 62 \| page = 72 \|year = 1991 \|quote=The great Purandara Dasa was a 'Margadarsi' in many ways although he is generally referred to as the 'Pitamaha' (grandfather) of Carnatic music.}}</ref>

	<ref name="oldest">Zydenbos, R . (2012) in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press. ~~{{ISBN\|978-0-691-15491-6}}~~</ref>		<ref name="oldest">Zydenbos, R . (2012) in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press.</ref>

	<ref name="Thielemann">[[Selina Sharma\|Thielemann, Selina]]. (2002). ''Divine Service and the Performing Arts in India''. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. p. 22: "The most well known among the haridasas is Purandara Dasa (1480 or 84-1564), whose significant contribution to South Indian music is honoured by referring to him as the 'father of Carnatic music'".</ref>		<ref name="Thielemann">[[Selina Sharma\|Thielemann, Selina]]. (2002). ''Divine Service and the Performing Arts in India''. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. p. 22: "The most well known among the haridasas is Purandara Dasa (1480 or 84-1564), whose significant contribution to South Indian music is honoured by referring to him as the 'father of Carnatic music'".</ref>

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	<ref name="oldest">Zydenbos, R . (2012) in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press. {{ISBN\|978-0-691-15491-6}}</ref>		<ref name="oldest">Zydenbos, R . (2012) in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press. {{ISBN\|978-0-691-15491-6}}</ref>

	<ref name="Thielemann">[[Selina Sharma\|Thielemann, Selina]]. (2002). ''Divine Service and the Performing Arts in India''. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation~~. {{ISBN\|81-7648-333-8}}~~. p. 22: "The most well known among the haridasas is Purandara Dasa (1480 or 84-1564), whose significant contribution to South Indian music is honoured by referring to him as the 'father of Carnatic music'".</ref>		<ref name="Thielemann">[[Selina Sharma\|Thielemann, Selina]]. (2002). ''Divine Service and the Performing Arts in India''. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. p. 22: "The most well known among the haridasas is Purandara Dasa (1480 or 84-1564), whose significant contribution to South Indian music is honoured by referring to him as the 'father of Carnatic music'".</ref>
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	==External links==		==External links==
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	*[http://www.nadatarangini.org/ Annual Purandara Dasa and Thyagaraja Aradhana in D.C., Maryland and Virginia]		*[http://www.nadatarangini.org/ Annual Purandara Dasa and Thyagaraja Aradhana in D.C., Maryland and Virginia]
	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPCIjKRmcQ Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Sri Raagam		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPCIjKRmcQ Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Sri Raagam

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{{Infobox religious biography
|name = Purandara Dasa
|background =
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|caption =
|native_name = ಪುರಂದರ ದಾಸರು
|birth_name = Srinivasa Nayaka ‌<br /> ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ ನಾಯಕ
|birth_date = 1484
|birth_place = Kshemapura, near [[Tirthahalli]], [[Shivamogga district]], Karnataka
|death_date = 2 January 1565 (Saturday)
|death_place = [[Hampi]], Karnataka, India
|occupation = [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] Vocalist, scholar, Saint, poet, composer
|guru = [[Vyasatirtha]]
|religion = [[Hinduism]]
|philosophy = [[Dvaita]], [[Vaishnavism]]
}}

'''Purandara Dāsa''' <ref>Kamath, Suryanath. (1980). ''A concise history of Karnataka from prehistoric times to the present''. Bangalore: Jupiter Books.</ref> (c. 1484 – c. 1565) was an Indian philosopher, a [[Haridasa]], a renowned composer of [[Carnatic music]], a great devotee of [[Krishna|Lord Krishna]], a [[Vaishnava]] poet, a saint and a social reformer. He was a disciple of the [[Dvaita]] philosopher-saint [[Vyasatirtha]], and a contemporary of yet another [[Haridasa]], [[Kanakadasa]]. His guru, Vyasatirtha, glorified Purandara Dasa in a song thus: ''Dāsarendare purandara dāsarayya''. He was a composer, singer and one of the chief founding-proponents of South Indian classical music ([[Carnatic music]]). In honor of his significant contributions to Carnatic music, he is widely referred to as the ''Pitamaha'' (''lit''. "father" or "grandfather") of Carnatic music.<ref name="iyer"/><ref name="Thielemann"/><ref name="MA1991"/><ref name="oldest"/> He is respected as an ''[[Avatar]]a'' (incarnation) of the great sage [[Narada]] (a celestial being who is also a singer).

Purandara Dasa was a wealthy merchant of gold, silver and other miscellaneous jewellery from [[Karnataka]], who gave away all his material riches to become a Haridasa (literally meaning a servant of Lord Hari or Lord Krishna), a devotional singer who made the difficult Sanskrit tenets of [[Srimad Bhagavatam]] available to everyone in simple and melodious songs. He was one of the most important music scholars of medieval India.<ref name=nettl216>{{cite book|author1=Nettl, Bruno |author2=Stone, Ruth M. |author3=Porter, James |title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOlNv8MAXIEC |year=1998|isbn=978-0-8240-4946-1|page=216}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Narayan, M.K.V. |title=Lyrical Musings on Indic Culture: A Sociological Study of Songs of Sant Purandara Dasa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-r7AxJp6NOYC |year=2010|publisher=Readworthy|isbn=978-93-80009-31-5|page=108}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ranade, Ramchandra Dattatraya |title=Mysticism in India: The Poet-Saints of Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Ql0PUJJPp8C&pg=PA18|year=1933|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-87395-669-7|pages=18–19}}</ref> He formulated the basic lessons of teaching Carnatic music by structuring graded exercises known as ''Svaravalis'' and ''[[Alankara]]s'',<ref name=nettl216/> and at the same time, he introduced the ''[[raga]]'' [[Mayamalavagowla]] as the first scale to be learnt by beginners in the field – a practice that is still followed today. He also composed ''Gitas'' (simple songs) for novice students.

Purandara Dasa is noted for composing ''Dasa Sahithya'', as a [[Bhakti movement]] vocalist, and a music scholar. His practice was emulated by his younger contemporary, [[Kanakadasa]]. Purandara Dasa's Carnatic music compositions are mostly in [[Kannada language|Kannada]], though some are in [[Sanskrit]]. He signed his compositions with the ''ankitanama'' (pen name) "Purandara Vittala" ([[Vittala]] is another name of the supreme one, Lord [[Krishna]], one of the incarnations of the Lord [[Vishnu]]) and this same form of Lord [[Krishna]] is his aaradhya daiva or ishta murthi or worshippable deity. His work was appreciated by many scholars of his time and the later scholars. Lord Rama (Ram) is for Treta Yuga, Lord Krishna is for Dwapara Yuga and Daasara Padagalu (Keerthanas of Purandara Dasa) is for Kali Yuga is a popular belief.

==Biography==
Inscriptional evidence suggests Purandara Dasa was born to a diamond merchant in a [[Kannada people|Kannada]] [[Nayaka]] family of karnataka,<ref>{{cite book|title=Sree Puranḍara gānāmrutham: text with notation|author1=Purandaradāsa|author2=Iyer, A. S. Panchapakesa |publisher=Gānāmrutha Prachuram|year=1992|quote=Shri Purandara dasa who is considered to be the aadhiguru and Sangeeta Pitaamaha of carnatic music was born in Purandaragad in Ballary District near the town of Hampi, to a millionaire Varadappa Naayak and Kamalaambaal, a devoted wife and great lady, belonging to Madhva Desaastha Brahmin race, by the blessings of Tirupati Venkatachalapathi in the year 1484.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Saṅgīta śāstra saṅgraha: a guide to theory of Indian music|author=Vedavalli, Mandayam Bharati |publisher=M.B. Vedavalli|year=2001|page=143|quote=Purandara Daasa was the son of a rich merchant by name Varadappa Naayaka. He was a Brahmin of the Madhva Deshaasta Sect.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Frontline, Volume 14, Issues 8–14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKBKAQAAIAAJ|author=Rangarajan, S. |publisher=Kasturi & Sons|date=1997}}</ref> in 1484 CE in Kshemapura, near [[Tirthahalli]], [[Shivamogga district]], Karnataka state.<ref>[[#Sharma2000|Sharma (2000)]], p. 598</ref> According to other opinions, his native town was Purandaraghatta in Karnataka,<ref name="ghatta"/> or Purandaragad near [[Pune]], but the latter is considered a historical mistake – connecting his "pen name" (his ''ankita'') with a location that mainly served as a military encampment in the 15th and 16th century.<ref>Desai, Krishnarao and Sharma in [[#Sharma2000|Sharma (2000)]], Appendix VII</ref>

The only son of Varadappa Nayaka, a wealthy merchant, and Leelavati, he was named Srinivasa Nayaka, after the [[Tirumala Venkateswara Temple|Lord of the Seven Hills]]. He received a good education in accordance with the family traditions and acquired proficiency in Kannada, Sanskrit, and sacred music. At the age of 16 he was married to one Saraswati Bai, held by tradition to have been a pious young girl. He lost his parents at age 20, thereby inheriting his father's business of gemstones and pawning. He prospered and became known as ''Navakoti Narayana''(an abundantly rich man; worth ninety millions).

Popular legend narrates a miraculous incident in Srinivaasa Nayaka's life, owing to which he was led to devote himself to the practice, propagation and inculcation of ''[[bhakti]]'' (devotion) towards Lord Krishna through musical compositions. As a natural, inescapable consequence of such a transforming event, ubiquitous in the lives of several saints throughout the ages, he is believed to have relinquished his former greedy and miserly self, having realized the worthlessness of attachment to worldly possessions:<ref>Iyengar, Maasti Venkatesha ("Srinavasa"). 1964. [http://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/masti-venkatesha-iyengara-story ''Purandara Daasa'']. Bangalore: Bangalore Press.</ref> The Lord, in a bid to cure Srinivaasa of his tenacious materialistic delusion and attachment, and thereby claim his devotion to Himself, approached Srinivaasa in the guise of a poor man, with a piteous plea for money; ostensibly, the money was direly needed to perform His (!) son's 'upanayana'(sacred thread initiation).

Having been summarily rejected, mocked and turned out, the 'poor man' surreptitiously repeated his plea before Srinivaasa's wife; a generous soul of rigorous spiritual nature, she gave away one of her precious nose rings, unbeknownst to her husband; the 'poor man' sold the nose ring back to none other than Srinivaasa himself! The shrewd Srinivaasa, privy to his wife's openhandedness, immediately identified the nose ring as his wife's and hurried home; enraged and anxious to ascertain the truth of the matter, he demanded his wife to produce the nose ring before him immediately.

Realizing that Srinivaasa had grown wise to her secret donation, the wife decided to end her life with poison. Having completed her prayers to the Lord before her attempt, she was shocked to see a nose ring inside the poison cup – completely identical to the one she had just given away. Incredulous and rapturous, she recounted the entire episode to her husband, who was bewildered and lost. Meanwhile, a search for the 'poor man' was of no avail; he had as mysteriously vanished as he had appeared! At that very propitious moment, Srinivaasa's old self – convinced of the inscrutable ways of the Lord, having witnessed the unfailing grace that saved his pious wife, bewildered at the power that could, in a moment, produce a gold ornament by mere will – instantly shook off that beginning-less, persistent veil in the form of 'I' and 'mine', which masks most men's vision of the divine. At 30 years of age, he gave away all his wealth in charity, and together with his family, abandoned his house to lead the life of a mendicant – living on alms and singing the glories of the Lord. In his very first song composition, he laments his wasted life of indulgence. It begins with the words "Ana lae kara" in the [[Shuddha Saveri]] [[raga]], set to Triputa [[Tala (music)|tala]].

In the course of his wandering he met the holy sage [[Vyasatirtha]], one of the chief exponents of Madhwa philosophy and the ''raajaguru'' of Krishnadevaraaya, emperor of the Vijayanagara kingdom. According to Prof. Sambamoorthy,<ref>[http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/10/20/stories/2006102000060300.htm Friday Review Chennai and Tamil Nadu. Columns : An authority on Purandara Dasa]. ''The Hindu''. 20 October 2006.
</ref> Srinivasa had his formal initiation at the hands of Vyasatirtha in 1525 when he was about 40 years old, with the name Purandara Daasa bestowed on him. Purandara Daasa traveled extensively through the length and breadth of the [[Vijayanagara]] empire in Karnataka, Tirupati, Pandharapura composing and rendering soul- stirring songs in praise of God. He spent his last years in Hampi and also sang in Krishnadevaraaya's durbaar. The mantapa (mandap) in which he stayed is known as Purandara Daasa Mantapa (mandap) in Hampi. He died on 2 January 1565 at the age of 80. Within a short period after his death, [[Vijayanagara]] empire collapsed. Tradition and legend hold that he composed {{formatnum:475000}} keerthanas (songs). Further, according to this legend, his original desire was to compose 500,000 keerthanas. Being unable to do it in his present life, he requested his younger son to complete them. His son Madhwapathi told his father that he could do this in his next janma (birth). It is believed that he was reborn as the famous [[Vijaya Dasa|Vijayadasa]]—birthplace is Cheekalparvi village near Maanvi town, Raichur district in Karnataka State—and completed the remaining 25 thousand keerthanas as promised. Most of his songs are in praise of Lord Naraayana and other Devatas. Due to thisbelieved to be an avatar of Naarada, lthe celestial singer and son of Goddess Saraswati. One of the 'trimurtis'' (three icons) of Carnaatic music, Saint [[Thyagaraja]], has paid tribute to Purandara Daasa in his ''geya natakam''(an opera) Prahlada Bhakti Vijayam.<ref>[http://thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.in/2011/07/prahlada-bhakti-vijayam-part-1-dance.html Thyagaraja Vaibhavam: Prahlada Bhakti Vijayam – Part 1 – Dance-Drama]. Thyagaraja-vaibhavam.blogspot.in (20 July 2011). Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref>

==Purandara Dasa and Carnatic music==
Purandara Dasa systematized the method of teaching Carnatic music which is followed to the present day. He introduced the [[raga]] ''[[Mayamalavagowla]]'' as the basic scale for music instruction and fashioned a series of graded lessons such as ''swaravalis'', ''janti swaras'', ''alankaras'', ''lakshana geetas'', ''prabandhas'', ''ugabhogas'', ''daatu varase'', ''geeta'', ''sooladis'' and ''[[kriti]]s''.<ref name="iyer"/> Another of his important contributions was the fusion of ''bhava'', ''raga'', and ''laya'' in his compositions. He included comments on ordinary daily life and elements of colloquial language in his lyrics. He introduced folk ragas into the mainstream, setting his lyrics to tunes/ragas of his day so that even a common man could learn and sing them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/12/02/stories/0902070b.htm |title=Purandaradasa: Fountainhead of Karnataka sangeeta i.e., Carnatic music |access-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110420185130/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/12/02/stories/0902070b.htm |archive-date=20 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also composed a large number of ''lakshya'' and ''lakshana'' ''geetas'', many of which are sung to this day. His ''sooladis'' are musical masterpieces and are the standard for ''raga'' ''lakshana''. Scholars attribute the standardization of ''varna mettus'' entirely to Purandara Dasa.<ref>{{cite book|title=Musings of a Musician: Recent Trends in Carnatic Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_UtAAAAMAAJ|page=83|author=R. Rangaramanuja Iyengar|publisher=Wilco Publishing House|year=1977}}</ref>

The traveling [[Haridasa|dasas]] who succeeded him are believed to have followed the systems he devised, as well as orally passing down his compositions. According to traditional sources, his compositions number as many as four lakh and seventy five thousand.<ref name="medieval">{{cite book|last1=K Paniker|first1=Ayyapan |title=medieval India Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=medieval+indian+literature|accessdate=8 March 2013|year=2008|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0365-5|pages=196–198}}</ref> No more than 700 compositions are accessible now.

Purandara Dasa was a ''vaggeyakara'' (composer-performer), a ''lakshanakara'' (musicologist), and the founder of musical pedagogy. For all these reasons and the enormous influence that he had on Carnatic music, musicologists call him the ''Sangeeta Pitamaha'' (lit. "grandfather") of Carnatic music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sruti.com/June06/bbook.htm |title=Stamps On Saint Composers – Part 13. Purandaradasa|accessdate=21 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130162941/http://www.sruti.com/June06/bbook.htm |archivedate=30 November 2006 }}</ref>

Purandara Dasa had great influence on [[Hindustani music]]. The foremost Hindustani musician [[Tansen]]'s teacher, [[Swami Haridas]], also a Saraswat Brahmin, was Purandara Dasa's disciple.<ref>Gavai, Sheshadri. (1956). ''Sangeetha kalaravinda''. Bangalore: Aravinda Publications.</ref>

==Social Reforms==
Purandara Dasa tried to reform existing practices in the society, and preached to others in the local language, [[Kannada language|Kannada]] by singing devotional songs.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC|author=Roshan Dalal|publisher=Penguin India|year=2010|page=155|isbn = 9780143414216}}</ref> Most of his keertanas deals with social reform and pinpoints defects found in the society.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GThtAAAAMAAJ|title=Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, Volume 3|page=129|publisher=The Institute|year=1985}}</ref> The philosophy of Purandara Dasa is harmonious with the concept of ''[[bhakti]]'' in Hinduism, broadly based on the ''[[Narada Bhakti Sutra]]s'' and essentially synchronous with the pan-Indian [[Bhakti movement]]. It teaches complete self-surrender and unadulterated love towards Lord Krishna, the Supreme. The philosophy of Bhakti in Purandara Dasa's compositions stems from the essential teachings of the realistic-pluralistic Madhwa Philosophy of [[Vaishnavism]], and has been rendered in simple Kannada. The individual soul (''jeeva'') is a ''pratibimba'' (reflection) of the Lord (''Vishnu/Ishvara''), who is the ''bimba'' (source). The ''jeeva'' owes its existence, knowledge and bliss to the ''Ishvara'', and any sense of independence with regards to one's actions and the results thereof is to be given up.<ref>[http://madhwabrahmanas.blogspot.in/2010/09/essence-of-madhva-philosophy.html Tattvavaada Philosophy: The Essence of Madhva Philosophy]. Madhwabrahmanas.blogspot.in (9 September 2010). Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> The mind has to be turned away from transient pleasures and possessions of this world; instead, it is to be turned towards the Lord, who alone is the abode of unadulterated, unswerving bliss. His ''[[keerthana]]s'' have simple lessons in this regard and implore men to lead the noble life of a ''Vaishnava''.<ref>[http://bellurramki18.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/sri-purandara-dasa-1494-1564/ Sri Purandara Dasa (1494–1564) | Rambling with Bellur]. Bellurramki18.wordpress.com (19 January 2007). Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref>

===Casteism===
Purandara Dasa fought the evils of [[casteism]] through his songs.<ref name="Lyrical">{{cite book | first1=Narayan | last1=M.K.V | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-r7AxJp6NOYC | title=Lyrical Musings on Indic Culture: A Sociology Study of Songs of Sant Purandara Dasa | publisher=Read Worthy Publications Private Limited | accessdate=12 March 2013 | year=2010 | page=11 | isbn=9789380009315}}</ref> In his song ''aavakulavaadarenu aavanadarenu aatma bhavavariyada mele'' he wonders what is the use if one does not understand the spirit of humanism whatever caste or status one might be accredited to.<ref name="Lyrical"/> In the same song when relating to cows of different colours and sugarcane of different shapes he emphasizes that one's birth cannot merely decide the highness or lowness of any individual.<ref name="Lyrical"/> He asks will the sweetness of a crooked sugarcane be also crooked or will the milk of cows of many a colour be also of many colours.<ref name="Lyrical"/> He asked people to do their best in the world, to provide food and charity to the poor, help others and give up attachments. He was against the caste system, and believed true caste was based on character, not on birth. Sacrifice did not imply the slaughter of animals, but the slaying of one's own bad qualities.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=87k0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT950|title=The Religions of India: A Concise Guide to Nine Major Faiths|author=Roshen Dalal|date=2014-04-18|publisher=Penguin UK|accessdate=18 April 2014|page=950|isbn=9788184753967}}</ref>

===Men and women===
According to Purandara Dasa there were no inequalities among men and women. Both of them had same rights and obligations in their conduct of everyday life as well as observation of pity. Purandara Dasa distinctly described the quality of a virtuous women . According to him, the neck chains, bangles and other ornaments which women wore were not important; the beauty of mind and noble conduct were her true embellishments.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of the Folk Culture of Karnataka: Introductory articles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVZuAAAAMAAJ|author=Kr̥ṣṇamūrti Hānūru|publisher=Institute of Asian Studies|year=1991|page=165}}</ref>

===Untouchability===
Purandara Dasa made some forceful expressions on [[untouchability]], which was dogging society.<ref name="Lyrical"/> His strength comes perhaps from the support of his guru [[Vyasathirtha]] with the backing of powerful king [[Krishnadevaraya]] of [[Vijayanagara]] himself.<ref name="Lyrical"/> In one such song ''[[Holaya]] horagithane oorolagillave'' he opines that an individual should not be branded untouchable on the basis of his/her birth in any specific caste, however it is rather his conduct which should make him untouchable if at all he can be called so. The usage of the word untouchable is not used in the limited context of physical contact with the person, it is the worthlessness of the association with that person which is highlighted here. This is evident by the subsequent expressions in the song which says that one who does not practice self-discipline is untouchable, one who plots against his own government is untouchable, similarly one who shirks charity while having wealth is untouchable, one who poisons to eliminate his opponents is untouchable, one who does not use soft language is untouchable, one who prides over his purity of caste is untouchable and finally one who does not meditate on Purandara Vittala is untouchable.<ref name="Lyrical"/> Dasa's message is loud and clear rejecting untouchability in our society.<ref name="Lyrical"/> He uses the name of Purandara Vittala to imply any God.<ref name="Lyrical"/> This is evident from his other songs on various Gods and Goddesses.<ref name="Lyrical"/> Similar ideas were expressed by many other poets also.<ref name="Lyrical"/>

==Legacy and depictions in popular culture==
===In contemporary music===
In the pure Carnatic tradition, [[Bidaram Krishnappa]] was one of the foremost singers of modern times to popularize the compositions of Purandara Dasa. Singer Madras Lalithangi, and her illustrious daughter Padmavibushan, Sangeetha Kalanidhi [[M. L. Vasanthakumari]] have rendered yeoman service in propagating the compositions of Purandara Dasa; both were considered as authorities on Purandara Dasa. M. L. Vasantha Kumari was awarded an honorary doctorate by [[Mysore University]] for her contributions to Purandara Dasa's music.

Though the compositions of Purandara Dasa are originally in the ''ragas'' of the Carnatic system of music, his compositions have been adopted and made equally popular in [[Hindustani music]]. Hindustani music legends such as [[Bhimsen Joshi]], [[Madhav Gudi]] and [[Basavaraj Rajguru]] have made them more popular in recent years.

Classical vocalists and musicians such as [[Upendra Bhat]], [[Puttur Narasimha Nayak]], [[Venkatesh Kumar]], [[Nagaraja Rao Havaldar]], [[Ganapathi Bhatt]], [[Vidyabhushana]], [[Pravin Godkhindi]], [[Nachiketa Sharma]], [[Sangeetha Katti]], and the [[Bombay Sisters]] are continuing the tradition of singing and performing Purandara Dasa's compositions and other Dasa Sahitya songs in Carnatic as well as Hindustani music concerts. Of late, Mysore Ramachandracharya is industriously propagating dasa sahitya through his concerts. [[Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams]] is also propagating the dasa krithis through the Dasa Sahitya Project. He also composed the first [[lullaby]] songs in Carnatic music, such as ''Thoogire Rangana''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5S8DbE6pWI Toogire Rangana]. YouTube (29 September 2012). Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> and ''Gummana Kareyadire'',<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-V7dfBRZ9g Bharatanatyam dance – Gummana Kareyadire]. YouTube (14 September 2010). Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> which led to the creation of many similar songs by others.

===Memorials and monuments===
The Purandara Mantapa<ref>[http://hampi.in/purandaradasa-mantapa Purandara Mantapa]. Hampi.in. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> adjoining the Vijayavittala temple at Hampi is one of the longstanding monuments relating to Purandara Dasa. This is where he is said to have composed and sung in praise of Lord Vishnu.

A statue of Purandara Dasa has been erected at the foothills of Tirumala in Alipiri.<ref name="TTD">{{cite web | title = Purandaradasa statue unveiled at Tirupati | url=http://www.carnaticdarbar.com/news/201001/20100625.asp | accessdate = 1 November 2015 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra_pradesh/article445160.ece Purandaradasa statue unveiled at Tirupati]. ''The New Indian Express''. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> A statue of Purandara Dasa adorns the Asthana Mandapam (auditorium) on the Tirumala hill.

Sri Purandara Dasa Memorial Trust (SPDMT),<ref>[http://www.purandara.org/ Welcome to Sri Purandara Dasa Memorial Trust (R)]. Purandara.org. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> formed in Bangalore in 2007, has been actively involved in promoting and researching all aspects of the life and works of Purandara Dasa. A 3500-square-foot concert hall, called 'Purandara Mantapa', has been erected on the premises of the Trust.

The [[Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha]] (ISS) at Indiranagar, Bangalore formed in 1986, has dedicated an auditorium with a seating capacity of 600 called Purandara Bhavana<ref>[http://www.isangeethasabha.in/Purandara_bhavana.html Purandara Bhavana]. Isangeethasabha.in. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> exclusively for cultural events, inaugurated by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam,<ref>[http://www.isangeethasabha.in/Purandara_bhavana.html Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha]. Isangeethasabha.in. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> to his memory.

===Salutations===
*On 14 January 1964, the [[India Security Press]] – Department of posts had issued a stamp in honour of Purandarasa Dasa on his 400th death anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|title=Commemorative Postage Stamps Of India|url=http://postagestamps.gov.in/CommemorativePostageStamps.aspx|publisher=Ministry of Communication, Government of India}}</ref>
*Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam has propagated and popularised the literature of Purandara Dasa under the Dasa Sahitya Project.<ref name="TTDS">{{cite web | title = Dasa Sahitya Project | url=http://www.tirumala.org/RADasaSahityaProject.aspx | accessdate = 29 October 2015 }}</ref>

=== Biographical movies and documentaries===

Three [[biographical films]], in Kannada language, have been made on the life and compositions of Purandara Dasa.

*''[[Purandaradasa (film)|Purandaradasa]]'' (1937)
*''[[Navakoti Narayana]]'' (1964)
*''[[Sri Purandara Dasaru]]'' (1967)

*Film director and playwright [[Girish Karnad]] made a documentary film titled ''Kanaka-Purandara'' (English, 1988) on the two medieval Bhakti poets of Karnataka.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0231862/ ''Kanaka-Purandara''] [[IMDb]]</ref><ref name=hin>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1603/16031170.htm AWARDS: The multi-faceted playwright] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011230180843/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1603/16031170.htm |date=30 December 2001 }} ''[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]'', Vol. 16, No. 03, 30 Jan – 12 February 1999.</ref>

===Aradhana===
{{Main|Purandaradasa Aradhana}}
''Aradhana'' is a religious-devotional observation, held annually, to remember and honor saintly persons on the anniversary of their disappearance . Purandara Dasa's ''aradhana'' or ''punyadina'' is held on the ''pushya bahula amavasya''<ref>[http://www.sumadhwaseva.com/dasaru/purandara-dasaru/ Purandara Dasaru – Sumadhwa Seva]. Sumadhwaseva.com. Retrieved 25 December 2018.</ref> of the Indian ''chandramana'' calendar (a new moon day, generally in February–March). Musicians and art aficionados in the state of Karnataka, South India and many art and religious centers around the world observe this occasion with religious and musical fervor. His compositions are sung by established and upcoming artists on this day.

==Compilations of Purandara Dasa's lyrics==
*[http://www.osuri.com/songs/GajaVadanaBeduve.html Gaja Vadana Beduve Gowri Thanaya] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Carnatic Raagam Hamsadhwani
*{{Citation|title=Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJVkAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195646559}}
*KavyaPremi. 1996. ''Purandara Daasa Haadugalu''. Dharwad: Samaja Publishers. Contains ca. 225 songs; in Kannada language.

==See also==
*[[Haridasa]]
*[[Madhvacharya]]
*[[Vyasatirtha]]
*[[Kanaka Dasa]]
*[[Annamacharya]]
*[[Shishunala Sharif]]
*[[Puttur Narasimha Nayak]]
*[[Dvaita Vedanta]]
*[[List of Carnatic composers]]
*[[List of Carnatic artists]]
*[[List of Carnatic instrumentalists]]
*[[Trinity of Carnatic music]]

==References==
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<ref name="iyer">Iyer, Panchapakesa. (2006). ''Karnataka Sangeetha Sastra''. Chennai: Zion Printers. p. 93: "He is considered to be the ''Pitamaha'' of Carnatic music because he codified the teaching of Carnatic music by evolving several graded steps like ''Sarali'', ''Jantai'' and ''Tattu Varisai''; alankaras and geethams")</ref>

<ref name="MA1991">{{cite journal | last = Parthasarathy|first = T. S.|title = Margadarsi Whom Swati Tirunal followed| journal = The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras| volume = 62 | page = 72 |year = 1991 |quote=The great Purandara Dasa was a 'Margadarsi' in many ways although he is generally referred to as the 'Pitamaha' (grandfather) of Carnatic music.}}</ref>

<ref name="oldest">Zydenbos, R . (2012) in Cushman S, Cavanagh C, Ramazani J, Rouzer P, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition'', p. 767, Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-691-15491-6}}</ref>

<ref name="Thielemann">[[Selina Sharma|Thielemann, Selina]]. (2002). ''Divine Service and the Performing Arts in India''. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. {{ISBN|81-7648-333-8}}. p. 22: "The most well known among the haridasas is Purandara Dasa (1480 or 84-1564), whose significant contribution to South Indian music is honoured by referring to him as the 'father of Carnatic music'".</ref>
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==Cited sources==
*{{cite book|ref=Sharma2000|author=Sharma, B.N.K. |year=2000|title=History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its Literature|place=Delhi|publisher= [[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-1575-9}}

==Further reading==
*{{citation | year=1964 | title = The Vedanta kesari, Volume 49 | publisher=Sri Ramakrishna Math. | page=419 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jynkAAAAMAAJ&q=purandaradasa+sannyasa}}
* Kassebaum, Gayatri Rajapur. ‘Karnatak raga’ (2000). In {{cite book|title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|last=Arnold|first=Alison|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=New York City & London|ref=Arnold2000}}
*Dr. Vasudev Agnihotry "Purandaradasaru mattu Shri Mad Bhagavata Ondu Toulanika Adhyayana" PhD Osmania University [[Hyderabad, India]] 1984 Publisher: Samskriti Prakashana Sedam. Keertana Vidya nagar sedam 58522 dist gulbarga Karnataka

==External links==
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*[http://www.nadatarangini.org/ Annual Purandara Dasa and Thyagaraja Aradhana in D.C., Maryland and Virginia]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOPCIjKRmcQ Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma] A popular Purandara Dasa composition in Sri Raagam
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309082605/http://sahityam.net/wiki/Category:Purandaradasa Lyrics and translation of Purandaradasa compositions]

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