Gopala Nattuvanar
Gopala Nattuvanar
Pandanallur Meenakshisundaram Pillai
Pandanallur, India
29 students ↓
Kalanidhi Narayanan
Chennai, India
14 students ↓
T. Balasaraswati
Chennai, India
39 students ↓
Kancheepuram Ellappa Pillai
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Amala Shankar
India
Ganeshan Pillai
India
Tanjavur K.P. Sivanandam
K. Venkatalakshmamma
Mysore, India
Rukmini Devi Arundale
Chennai, India
20 students ↓
K. P. Kittappa Pillai
Thanjavur, India
36 students ↓
Ram Gopal
Bangalore, India
6 students ↓
K.J. Govindarajan
Delhi, India
28 students ↓
Pandanallur Chokkalingam Pillai
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Baroda Guru Kubernath Tanjorkar
Vadodara, India
13 students ↓
Karaikkal Dandayudhapani Pillai
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Pichaiyya Pillai
Thanjavur, India
3 students ↓
Adyar K Lakshman
Chennai, India
18 students ↓
C.V. Chandrasekhar
Chennai, India
9 students ↓
Leela Samson
Chennai, India
15 students ↓
Chandu Panikkar
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Khagendranath Barman
Kolkata, India
9 students ↓
Sarada Hoffman
Chennai, India
8 students ↓
Shanta Dhananjayan
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Kamala Rani
Long Island, New York, India
4 students ↓
Ramli Ibrahim
Kulalumpur, Malaysia
16 students ↓
Dr Chandrabhanu
Melbourne, Australia
13 students ↓
Mavin Khoo
London, United Kingdom
13 students ↓
C.P. Shanta
Chennai, India
4 students ↓
Roja Kannan
Chennai, India
7 students ↓
Ambika N.
Chennai, India
5 students ↓
Jayanthi Subramaniam
Chennai, India
2 students ↓
M.S. Ramadevi
Secunderabad, India
2 students ↓
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Lineage Stats
Lineage Overview
- ✦This lineage spreads across 21 countries.
- ✦Bharatanatyam is the primary style.
- ✦Avg. 636.0 students per direct shishya.
- ✦This lineage is 10 generations deep.
🪔 About
The earliest known pioneer of the hereditary nattuvanar family of the Thanjavur (Tanjore) Bani. He served at the Rajagopalaswamy Temple in Mannargudi and in the court of the Nayaka king Vijayaraghava Nayak.
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