He was one of the most important music scholars of medieval India.
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 Bhagavata Purana available to everyone in simple and melodious songs. According to a legend, he is considered as an incarnation of Saint Narada. "father" or "grandfather") of Carnatic music. In honor of his significant contributions to Carnatic music, he is widely referred to as the Pitamaha ( lit. He was a composer, singer and one of the chief founding-proponents of Carnatic music (Karnataka classical music). 1565) was a Haridasa philosopher and a follower of Madhwacharya 's Dwaitha philosophy -saint from present-day Karnataka, India. Purandara Dasa ( IAST: Purandara dāsa) ( c.
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