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 o ...

(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 In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have eit ...

, 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 Tala may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Tala (comics), a fictional character in DC comics *''Tala'', a 1938 volume of poetry by Gabriela Mistral *Tala (music), a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music * "Tala" (song), by Sarah Geronimo ...

cycle. *2nd - one tala cycle. *3rd - two long tala cycles *4th - four long tala cycles

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