Kadayanallur

Sri Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj

Yathra Alankapuri - AMDV 017

Sri.Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj Adhikari of viswa varakari Samasthan, Kadayanallur hails from a family f traditional bhajan singers. Event at a very young age, Ganapathi Murthy,(as he was earlier called) was attacted towards Abhangs.(ABHANGS are from of music which are the spontaneous devotional out pourings of Mahashtrian Saints like Gyaneswar, Tukaram etc.) Sri.Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj learnt to sing Abhangs in the typical "Varakari" style, from Sri.N.Vitoba Naik and Sri.N.Venkatesh Naik of Kochi. The Title of "Tukaram" was given in appreciation of his Abhang rendering, by his Guru Sri. Krishna Premi Maharaj and he is thus known to the world as Sri.Tukaram Ganapathi Maharaj