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CONTRIBUTION OF RAJAH SERFOJI 2 TOWARDS BHARATANATYAM:

serfoji maharajah wrote hundreds of songs in marathi and telugu all set in music and drama and rectals. he is the author of several dance pieces of alarippu, jatiswara, sabdam, varnams, and padas. he had composed numberless kavithuvam, slokavarnam,and prabhandas all adopted to bharathanatyam. sollukkattu, swarajatis, and sahityas with the respective notations in indian swaras are given for every item with meticulous care. perhaps his collection in bharathanatyam dance is by far the largest in the whole of india. no where in india is one single place can be seen such a huge collections in sampradaya natyam.such rare types of dances like jakkini, parani, dhurupandam, desi, navapadam, and kuravai were in voque and we have evidence of their being practised at his court. these type of dances have now become absolute.
bharathanatyam was then at its peak and several prodigious whose compositions are now considered the best that south india has ever produced flourished at his court. eminent dance masters like gangaimuthu, salapathy, subbarayan,mahadana annachi, chinnaya, vadivelu, and sundari were patronised by serfoji.
the traditional bhagavatha mela, the oldest type of dance dramaof the south received ample support at his hand.
serfoji devoted his attention not only towards revival of serious types of dances but introduced to thanjavur. some lighter types of folk dances like modi dance with bag pipes,kanchin naatch and a kind of street dance drama with some adaptations from the kathak dance of north india and dummy horse dance, a kind of folk dance in stills of the nomadix religious mendicants of maharashtra accompanied by sammela kirikatti like twin drum used by gondhalakar of thanjavur.
serfoji also wrote many dramas in marathi, telugu and sanskrit. as many 12 natakas and 15 natya nataka works like kumara sambava tika, mudraraksha charya, smriti iswagraha, palakappuja and gaja sastra pradhandam are attributed to his authorship. he patronised poets and scholars.

adopted from the book, " rajah serfoji 2" (with a short history of thanjavur marathas) written by prince Tulajendra rajah P.bhosle .

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