Those of you who have been following this serial on heritage locations of Carnatic music will remember that we last left Tyagaraja happily ensconced at Kovur Sundaresa Mudaliar's house on Bunder Street. During his stay there he sang Devagandhari raga on seven successive evenings and also paid a visit to his disciple 'Veena' Kuppayyar's house where he sang Venuganaloluni in raga Kedaragaula, keeping in mind that Kuppayyar's family deity was Venugopalaswami.

During this visit in the year 1837/39 (there being two possible years for the visit), Tyagaraja also visited Kovur, the native village of Sundaresa Mudaliar. In addition he visited Tiruvottriyur which we covered in detail in Sruti issue 247. It is the Kovur visit of Tyagaraja that concerns us now.