Purandara Dasa's Carnatic music compositions are mostly in Kannada, though some are in Sanskrit. His practice was emulated by his younger contemporary, Kanakadasa. Purandara Dasa is noted for composing Dasa Sahithya, as a Bhakti movement vocalist, and a music scholar. He also composed Gitas (simple songs) for novice students.

He formulated the basic lessons of teaching Carnatic music by structuring graded exercises known as Svaravalis and Alankaras, and at the same time, he introduced the raga Mayamalavagowla as the first scale to be learnt by beginners in the field – a practice that is still followed today. 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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