* Dasa Sahitya Project: Propagates and popularises the literature of the saint composers of Karnataka, popularly known as Karnataka Haridasas, who enriched Kannada religious literature with their hymns

As with the Dasa Sahitya of the later Haridasas, the Vachanas were also primarily targeted at the common person and sought to demystify God, as large sections of society had been deprived of access to the texts.

The bhakti literature of these Haridasas is collectively referred to as Dasa Sahitya.

Some noted Haridasas or composers of Dasa Sahitya are:

The Bhakti movement gave rise to Dasa Sahitya around the 15th century which significantly contributed to the evolution of Carnatic music in its present form.

The Haridasas spread the message of peace, love and bhakti in their Dasa Sahitya, which are also popularly known Devaranamas

Dasa Sahitya () is the literature of bhakti movement composed by devotees in honor of Lord Vishnu or one of his Avatars.

The bhakti literature of these Haridasas is collectively referred to as Dasa Sahitya.

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Purandara Dasa is considered the father of carnatic music.

This name is a Vaishnava name ( a name relating to Lord Krishna / Vishnu or a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint ), and is followed by " Dasa " for men and " Dasi " for women ( both terms mean " servant ").

Although improvisation plays an important role, Carnatic music is mainly sung through compositions, especially the kriti ( or kirtanam )-a form developed between the 14th and 20th centuries by composers such as Purandara Dasa and the Trinity of Carnatic music.

Purandara Dasa, who is known as the father ( Pitamaha ) of Carnatic Music, formulated the system that is commonly used for the teaching of Carnatic music.

Purandara Dasa ( 1480 – 1564 ) is renowned as the father ( Pitamaha ) of Carnatic music for formulating the basic lessons of, and his contributions to Carnatic music.

Carnatic music is traditionally taught according to the system formulated by Purandara Dasa.

Tyagaraja ( 1759 – 1847 ), Muthuswami Dikshitar ( 1776 – 1827 ) and Syama Sastri ( 1762 – 1827 ) are known as the Trinity of Carnatic music, while Purandara Dasa ( 1480 – 1564 ) is the father of Carnatic music.

Dasa is literally " servant " in Kannada and sahitya is literature.

Sarala Dasa who lived in the fourteenth century is known as the Vyasa of Orissa.

In Hinduism, the goddess Tara ( Bengali: দ ে ব ী ত া র া ম া )( Sanskrit: Tārā, Devanagari: त ा र ा) meaning " star " is the second of the Dasa ( ten ) Mahavidyas or " Great Wisdom ", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali, or Parvati.

Dasa ( Sanskrit ) is a term that initially had the connotation of " enemy ," as relating to tribes identified as the enemies of the Indo-Aryan tribes in the Rig Veda.

The present day usage of Dasa or Das in Hinduism has a respectful connotation and is not considered derogatory.

It is unclear whether the Dasa and Dasyu are related.

There is also a Dasa Balbutha Taruksa in RV 6. 45. 31 who is a patron of a seer and who is distinguished by his generosity ( RV 8. 46. 32 ).

It is significant that constant reference is made to difference in religion between Aryans and Dasa and Dasyu.

The present day usage of Dasa or Das in Hinduism has a respectful connotation and is not considered derogatory.

There is for example a Dasa called Urana with 99 arms ( RV II. 14. 4 ), and a Dasa with six eyes and three heads in the Rig Veda.

Dasa is literally servant in Kannada and sahitya is literature.

Almost every Oriya literature literateure like Sarala Dasa, Jagannath Dasa, Jayadeva, Balaram Dasa, Achyutaand Dasa, Jasobanta Dasa, Ananta, Upendra Bhanja, Baladeva, Dinakrush Dasa, Kavi Jadumani have composed invocations, prayers pertaining to Jagannath.

The district ( smallest in size among the 30 districts in Orissa ) has produced some of the most famous names in Oriya and Indian literature: Sarala Dasa, Birakishore, Gopal Chhotaray, Pratibha Ray and Bibhuti Patnaik, for example.

Great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Karnataka like Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa, Raghavendra Swami and many others were influenced by Dvaita traditions.

Great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Karnataka, Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa for example, were strong proponents of the Dvaita tradition.

Current or former GBC members include: Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Bhakti Caru Swami, Bhakti Tirtha Swami, Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami, Giriraja Swami, Gopala Krishna Goswami, Hansadutta Swami, Hridaya Caitanya Dasa, Hridayananda Dasa Goswami, Jayatirtha Dasa, Jayapataka Swami, Kirtanananda Swami, Malati Dasi, Mukunda Goswami, Radhanath Swami, Ramesvara Swami, Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, Romapada Swami, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Sivarama Swami, Tamala Krishna Goswami and others listed below:

BBT ( Bhaktivedanta Book Trust ) Library Party headed by him in mid 1970s was active in establishing distribution network mainly to the Universities of the United States, with some members of the team such as Bhakti Tirtha Swami and Suhotra Dasa traveling as far as Eastern Europe.

With the rise of Vaishnavism and the Haridasa movement came prominent composers from Karnataka like Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, Vijaya Dasa and Jagannathadasa.

Carnatic music saw renewed growth during the Vijayanagar Empire by the Kannada Haridasa movement of Vyasaraja, Purandara Dasa, Kanakadasa and others.

Among the Haridasa movement, Purandara Dasa who is known as the Sangeeta Pitamaha ( the father of Carnatic music ), is credited with the founding of the system of teaching Carnatic music.

The disadvantage with this system was that if one wanted to learn about a kriti composed, for example, by Purandara Dasa, it involved the difficult task of finding a person from Purandara Dasa's lineage of students.

Krishna Dasa Kaviraja composed the Caitanya Caritamrta in his old age after being requested by the Vaishnavas of Vrindavana to write a hagiography about the life of Caitanya.

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There are numerous biographies available from the time giving details of Chaitanya's life, the most prominent ones being the Chaitanya Charitamrita of Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami, the earlier Chaitanya Bhagavata of Vrindavana Dasa ( both originally written in Bengali but now widely available in English and other languages ), and the Chaitanya Mangala, written by Lochana Dasa.

Rama-bibaha, written by Arjuna Dasa, was the first long poem written in the Oriya language.

The name " Daseyi " – a term often used by her stepson Bhishma used to address her – means one of the Dasas ( slaves ), or a Dasa aboriginal princess.

The Dasa are often identified as the wealthy cattle-raising non-Indo-European populations subdued by the people practicing Vedic rituals in the course of the Indo-Aryan migration.

Dasa and related terms have been examined by several scholars.

The final story concerns the life of Dasa, a prince wrongfully usurped by his half brother as heir to a kingdom and disguised as a cowherd to save his life.

Purandara Dasa addressed social issues in addition to worship in his compositions, a practice emulated by his younger contemporary, Kanaka Dasa.

The instances of worship of Jagannath by Savara is also mentioned in Darubrahma Gita written by Jagannath Dasa in the 16 < sup > th </ sup > century CE and in Deula Tola written by Nilambara Das in the 17 < sup > th </ sup > century CE.

It includes sensuous rhythmic and structured music by composers such as Purandara Dasa, Tyagaraja, Dikshathar, Shyama Sasthri, and Swati Tirunal.