Composer · 1 work on Avabodhak · Carnatic (Krishna bhakti) · c. 1700–1765 CE
Browse all of Otukkaḍu Veṅkaṭa Kavi's texts in Avabodhak →A virtuoso Sanskrit-Tamil composer of the eighteenth-century Carnatic tradition whose krutis are prized for their literary depth and musical craft, devoted above all to Kṛṣṇa — the Svāgatam Kṛṣṇa being his most celebrated. He died roughly two and a half centuries ago — younger than this project's usual "400 years dead" rule — but the verse text is in the public domain by statute (life + 60 years under Indian law; Berne life + 50), and this text was ingested with the owner's explicit approval as a documented exception.