Govinda Dikshita

This versatile genius and erudite scholar composed Arivamsa Saracharitram and Sangitha Sudhanidhi(a treatise on music).

The sculpture of Dikshita and his wife, holding their hands in adoration, are found in the mandap in front of the Amman shrine.

Other fertile villages were encouraged to become seats of music and learning as Nayaks gave them to Telugu families.

[5] Govinda Dikshita was the father of another musicologist, Venkatamakhin, who is noted for his Chaturdandiprakashika, a treatise which formed the basis of the melakarta system of classification used in Carnatic music today.

[7] In 1542, Dikshita is founded Raja Veda Kavya Patashala in Kumbakonam, which is even today a centre for learning Vedic education.