There’s one, Sarvesha Vitthaladasa, who is still alive,” he says. And these are contributions of many, often unheard of, dasas. So the company unearths compositions from books, by travelling to places the saints lived in or journeyed through, or from village and family elders who might remember parts of this rich oral literature. We’re left with just a few thousands of them now,” says CEO B S Srinivas, adding that the ones known today should not disappear too. “Purandaradasa, who is called the father of Karnatak music, has composed 4,75,000 padas. The event is being organised by VedAtma Animation Studios, which strives to preserve dasa sahitya, in association with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, where it is being hosted.
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