172 Sanmugeswaran Pathmanesan murthy possessed all above qualities and had asurasāthakam in practicing the music and received different kind of experiences by performing his thavil music for skillful experts of nāthaswaram performers. Moreover, he awarded good faith and luck from the god. With regard to his capability of performing thavil for a long time was appreciated by many people of the India and Sri Lanka. Specially, it was identified during the layavinyasam time, it is taken important place of thavil concert. He was able to play for any kind of thalam, any kind of layam and any kind of speed, so he did not select particular kalam, thalam, and layam and he does not request nāthaswaram player to give particular time for his performance of layavinyasam while all performing the music, he used to do layavinyasam when nāthaswaram player allocate time, in addition he never appeal or request nāthaswaram player to give particular part of uruppadi for his convenience before starting the performance. Remarkably, his style was that he did his part for layavinyasam when nāhaswaram player allocated time, but he used to take more than two hours for layavinyasam. Generally, the duration is differed for this layavinyasam, who have a strong confidence, they can only go for layavinyasam and they perform beyond the time limitation.Case 7 I would like to bring another case here that once upon a time, at Puthukoddai, Mr. Megnanam Nadarasasuntharampillai’s nathaswaram concert, Thadchinamurthy had to perform layavinyasam five times at the audience requested to perform, it was memorable event for them that Suntharam said.25 Among five jathis 26 , he wondered of Sankeerana jathi though he was able to play for Kanda jathi or Sankeerana jathi or even for any other forms of jathi. He usually would make hard sound in performing layavinyasam. At this conjuncture, though many performers made an attempt to test his performing skills by giving tuff exercise, he bravely faced those challenges and perfectly answered to those challenges through his excellence performance of layavinyasam. Moving our at-tention towards his contribution for creating thala jathi that how Mahendravarma Pallavan 27 was called as » Sankeerna jathipuli « as he formulated the Sankeerana thala jathi, Thadchinamurthy also was praised as another » Mahendravarman « as he created a thala jathi which included eleven aksharam which was performed by him at many places, for example at a periyamelam concert was held at Arithuvaram Mankalam where he played this thala jathi in a ruthrakathi (very speed) for more than three hours. This performance was praised by many Tamil Nadu Periya Mēlam musicians for his new creation of the thala jathi and his scholarly contri-25 See also, P. M. Suntharam, Mangala Isai Mannarkal (Chithamparam: 2001), 342 26 Jathis are five: Tisra gati (three pulses per beat) Chatusra gati (four pulses per beat) Kanda gati (five pulses per beat) Misra gati (seven pulses per beat) Sankirna gati (nine pulses per beat).27 He is one of the Pallava Kings (Pallava Kingdom of Tamil Nadu)