[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Girirāja Kavi – A forgotten legendary Advaitin who was the grandfather of Śrī Tyāgarāja

[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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giriraja_Kavi#cite_note-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 <projectshankara.org at gmail.com> wrote:

> Read about him here:
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