Tyagaraja was born in the small town of Tiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Old Mysore State now Tamil Nadu, to Kakarla Ramabrahmam and Sitamma, a Telugu brahmin family.
He was named Tyagaraja, after Lord Tyagaraja, the presiding deity of the temple at Tiruvarur. His maternal grandfather, Giriraja Kavi, at whose house in Tiruvarur Tyagaraja was [...]