A prominent Haridasa saint-vaggeyakara from Karnataka. Purandara dasa appeared in his dreams and asked him to compose, we can consider him a shishya of Purandara Dasa. His compositions are diverse and veey rich in lyrical and musical content and he has used newer(in 17th-18th century) ragas also apart from Sankarabharana, Kalyani, Todi, Bhairavi etc.