Originally Posted by
Sureshs65
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That is the general perception and everyone has tried to stick to it. The truth is that unlike Purandaradasa and Annamayya, who used music as a vehicle for propagating their teachings and for devotion, Tyagaraja was a great musicologist. He was as much concerned about music as devotion. Otherwise he wouldn't have invented so many new ragas, would have given perfect grammar in those ragas and wouldn't have given so many krithi structures. Musicologist and musicians like S.Ramanathan and S R Janakiraman have expressed their awe for Tyagaraja as a musicologist. So in way I would differ from you here. For Tyagaraja, music was very important and not necessarily the means to attain Rama.
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