Girirāja Kavi – A forgotten legendary Advaitin who was the grandfather of Śrī Tyāgarāja

[Ajāti]

Read about him here:
https://www.instagram.com/_advaitam/p/DJhZOMRSUjD/?img_index=1

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks for the link to the very interesting composition contained in the post.  

Upon a search these two pieces of information emerge:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriraja_Kavi    According to this, the composer Giriraja Kavi is not related to Saint Thyagarajar as the grandfather of the latter.

//Giriraja Kavi is not related to Giriraja Brahmam/Giriraja Kavi (as oftentimes misinterpreted, even by eminent musicologists), who is saint-composer Tyagaraja's paternal grandfather, though both of them served the Thanjavur royals around the same time.^[2]//

https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/admin/assets/book/TVA_BOK_0024104/TVA_BOK_0024104_The_birth_place_of_Sri_Tyagaraja.pdf    This site however, identifies a Giriraja Kavi as the grandfather/uncle of Thyagarajar.  There is some difference of opinion.  

warm regards

subbu

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM Ajāti <projectsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Read about him here:
https://www.instagram.com/_advaitam/p/DJhZOMRSUjD/?img_index=1

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