Sarala Sahityara Shakta Dharma Odia Book By Dr. Dharanidhar Nayak
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Sarala Dasa was a 15th-century poet and scholar of Odia literature. Best known for three Odia books Mahabharata, Vilanka Ramayana and Chandi Purana he was the first scholar to write in Odia and his revered as the Adi Kabi of Odia literature.As an originator of Odia literature, his work has formed an enduring source of information for succeeding generations.
As well as the three books for which he is best known Mahabharata, Vilanka Ramayana and Chandi Purana Sarala Dasa also wrote the book Laxmi Narayana Vachanika. The Adi Parva Mahabharata opens with a long invocation addressed to the Lord Jagannatha of Puri, from which it is known that Sarala Dasa started writing his Mahabharata in the reign of Kapileswar, otherwise known as Kapilendra Deva, the famous Gajapati king of Odisha.He tells us that Maharaja Kapilesvara with innumerable offerings and many a salute was serving this great deity and hereby destroying the sins of the Kali age.
