The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c12.11

c12.11

KSHETRYA. A poet as well as a musician. He was the composer of innumerable love songs called Pathams, which are widely popular. The words of these pathams are often very beautiful, and are full of imagery most poetical, set to music equally as plaintive and appealing to the senses. An example of one of these pathams will be found in the song “Yalla tella vara,” upon page 81.