Charanam (meaning ''foot'') in

Carnatic music Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka. It is ...

(South Indian classical music) is usually the end section of a composition which is sung after the anupallavi.Royal Carpet: Glossary of Carnatic Terms C
/ref> There may be multiple ''charanams'' in a composition which make up different stanzas, but in compositions that do not have an anupallavi, there often exists a ''samrashti charanam'' that combines both the anupallavi and charanam of the composition which directly follows the ''

pallavi A pallavi has multiple connotations in carnatic music. It is the first part of any formal composition (Krithi) which has three segments - Pallavi, Anupallavi and Charanam (which can be one or more). Pallavi is usually also an abbreviation of R ...

''. The charana

swara Svara or swara (Devanagari: स्वर, generally pronounced as ''swar'') is a Sanskrit word that connotes simultaneously a breath, a vowel, the sound of a musical note corresponding to its name, and the successive steps of the octave or '' ...

s are grouped in four different ways: *1st - one tala cycle. *2nd - one tala cycle. *3rd - two long tala cycles *4th - four long tala cycles

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