Songs of Thyagaraja while on travel

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bhakthim dehi
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Re: Songs of Thyagaraja while on travel

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Krithi in Supradipam does not have reference to Sirkazhi or any other kshetram. I dont know the reason for him to include that.

MaheshS
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Re: Songs of Thyagaraja while on travel

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From the article, the trip is,

Thiruvayyaru - Lalgudi - Trichy - Madras - Tiruvottiyur - Walajahpet - Kanchipuram - Tirumala - Nagapattinam - Sirkazhi - Thiruvayyaru

Will see if I can plot this on G-Maps, should be interesting to visualise the path. I suppose his travel would have been by walk and / or cart?

sureshvv
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Re: Songs of Thyagaraja while on travel

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Many legends, all of them unsubstantiated, would be built on these tours of Tyagaraja.
A little too dismissive of historians of the previous era. Would have been better if he had gone out on a limb and presented the essence of those exaggerated legends.

bhakthim dehi
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Re: Songs of Thyagaraja while on travel

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I think he has made two separate trips.
Sirkazhi and Nagapatnam as a separate trip on some other occasion. This is just a guess.

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