Pallavi

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In Indian classical music pallavi is the thematic line of a song. It is usually one cycle long and repeated twice or thrice in order to give the percussionist the idea of the chosen taalam.

The life of the song, the word pallavi consists of a wide range of items that are considered as a single item:

• pa is derived from padam which means word or phrase;
• lla comes from layam which means poetry or rhythm;
• vi is from vinyasam which means [[imagination]