One thing I realized was that different instruments have different capacities to express rhythms. Certain things you play on tabla you just can’t play on Mridangam and vice versa. And so the difference in the instrument itself allows for the taala to manifest in different ways.

Listen to a teental peshkar and compare to an Adi taala thani and it’s just something completely different all together. Or even a North Indian bhajana compared to a keerthana or kriti in Carnatic.