Here is the exact timeline link: https://youtu.be/qXYDgLrT7R0?t=1407shankarank wrote: ↑17 Dec 2017, 09:06 https://youtu.be/qXYDgLrT7R0?t=1520
If you rewind, he had talked about tiruppugazh, which I don't disagree outright, but to get the contemporary musical aesthetics, for kAdi mOdi, it can be taken in triSra naDai, caturaSra jampai tALam - for the 21. kAdi , mOdi itself is in triSra gati from a syllabic perspective!
After that post, there has been a specific demo of the same by SrI tAyumAnavar during May 2018 SrI Pazhani remembrance day.
https://youtu.be/eRHvFSNb3tg?t=1016
he demonstrates the canda tALa, immediately noting the difficulty of doing it these days. Converts it to miSra jampa with the last sollu of laghu done as 3 instead of 2 (for the equivalent kAla pramANam). That makes 10*2 = 20 into 21 to accomodate the 21 akshara tirupugazh line.
That is a hybrid solution - giving the flavor of canda tALam within a standard sUlAdi tALA structure.
Then he finally goes into full triSra naDai mode where he picks triSra tripuTA. This is similar to catuSra jampa that I suggested. With catuSra jampa, kAdi mOdi vadAdu nUl - the subject fits into pURvAnga almost with "nUl " , where the dhIrga goes over anudRtam (saSabda kriyA). While kaTriduvORum does an atItam to the second one. These are there in triSra tripuTa as well , the first one in the vAdADu.