“Wont you draw back the curtain within me,
O Lord Venkataramana of Tirupati, Open up this screen of envy.”
[Jackson, William Joseph, Tyāgarāja and the Renewal of Tradition: Translations and Reflections, http://books.google.com/books?id=CZBnppBQgOsC&pg=PA69, 1 January 1994, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 978-81-208-1146-1, 169–]
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Carnatic musician and composer 1767–1847Related quotes
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