 Bharathi was a contemporary of Thyagaraja whom he is said to have met, and who asked him whether he had composed anything in the "raga AbhOgi"; Bharathi composed overnight one of his most popular "kriti"s in "rUpaka tALa", "Sabhaapatikku vERu".The great Tamil literary figure, U. V. Swaminatha Iyer wrote two sources for Bhaarati's life