Sri Purandara Dasa was a renowned composer, singer, and a Haridasa philosopher from present-day Karnataka, India. A devoted follower of Madhvacharya's Dvaita philosophy, he is widely celebrated as one of the chief architects of Karnatak (Carnatic) music. Due to his pivotal contributions, he is often called the Pitamaha (grandfather) of Karnatak music. According to legend, he is believed to be the incarnation of the sage Narada.

It is said that Sri Purandara Dasa composed a staggering 475,000 keertanas (devotional songs), though only about 1,200 compositions have survived to this day. All 1,200+ compositions featured on this website were meticulously compiled and edited by Sangeetha Kalanidhi late Sri T.K. Govinda Rao. These compositions were presented in Roman-English diacritical and Devanagari scripts much like his earlier publications on all the available compositions of Sri Tyagaraja, Sri Muddusvamy Dikshitar, Sri Syama Sastry and Sri Swati Tirunal. Sri Govinda Rao also provided SRGM notations for each composition, based on the ragas that were prevalent at the time, as mentioned in one of Purandara Dasa’s compositions. Furthermore, he included SRGM notations for hundreds of compositions he personally tuned, many of which were popularized by renowned artists such as Smt. M.L. Vasanthakumari, Bombay Sisters (Smt. Lalitha and Smt. Saroja) and others.