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Barnabodha was an Odia primer compiled by Madhusudan Rao. This book is the 6th volume of the original book and was published in 1896. Currently, none of the previous versions of this book are available anywhere in either physical or digital form.
Sarala Dasa (born as Siddheswara Parida) was a 15th-century poet and scholar of Odia literature. [1] Best known for three Odia books — Sarala Mahabharata, Vilanka Ramayana and Chandi Purana — he was the first scholar to write in Odia and his revered as the Adi Kabi (First Poet) of Odia literature. [2]
The reign of the Gajapatis is considered to be the golden period for Odisha art and literature. Kapilendra Deva patronized Odia language and literature along with Sanskrit, unlike his predecessors who used only Sanskrit. A short Odia poem Kebana Munikumara was found in the Sanskrit Drama Parashurama Vijaya, ascribed emperor Kapilendra Deva.
Not much is known about his early life. From his own writings it is known that he was the son of Somanatha Mahapatra and Jamuna Debi who belonged to Karana community. [5] [6] [7] Balarama Dasa hailed from an aristocratic noble family of a minister named Somanatha who belonged to Karana community, his father Somanatha was a devout follower of Lord Jagannath and raised Balarama in a religious ...
He wrote or translated into Odia as many as 250 books. [ 4 ] Das began his writing career with an article titled "Socrates" in the Ravenshaw Collegiate magazine Sikshabandhu in 1937 and went on to regularly contributing to newspapers, including major Odia dailies such as Dharitri , Pragativadi , Sambad , and Samaja . [ 4 ]
Amos Sutton (1802 in Sevenoaks in Kent – 17 August 1854 in Cuttack, Odisha) was an English General Baptist missionary to Odisha, India, and hymn writer. [1] He published the first English grammar of the Odia language (1831), [2] a History (1839), and Geography (1840), then the first dictionary of Odia (1841–43), [3] as well as a translation of the Bible (1842–45).
Radhanath Ray (28 September 1848 – 17 April 1908) was an Odia writer of initial modernity era in Odia poetry during the later part of nineteenth century. He was born in a Zamindar Karan family in Baleshwar (Bengal Presidency), now in Odisha, and is honoured in Odia literature with the title Kabibara (transl. Poet Boon).
Gopala Chandra Praharaj, who compiled and published the first comprehensive Odia dictionary, Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha (1931–40), introduced a new letter ୱ to the script to represent the sound wa. [11] [12] [13] An alternate letter was created for wa, ଵ, but it has not gained wide acceptance.