Odia Mahabharata
King Bali’s story ended when Bhagawan Sri Rama killed him. His son Angada’s story ended when, after his coronation as the King of Ayodhya, Rama bid an affectionate farewell to him with a very precious gift. Some legends extended Angada’s story beyond Tretaya yuga and ended his story in Dwapara yuga. He was the cause …
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In Sarala Mahabharata, (a) In King Duryodhana’s court, where he had gone as Yudhisthira’s emissary of peace, Krishna asked the Kaurava king for five villages for the Pandavas so that a war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas could be avoided. It would not be incorrect to say that during his interaction with the Kauravas …
Kiratasena, the king of the kiratas, the forest-dwellers, went to the Kurukshetra War for glory and for revenge but ended up attaining moksha. The Great War at Kurukshetra was imminent. The Pandavas and the Kauravas had entered the battlefield of Kurukshetra, and each side, with the warriors who had come to fight for them, was …
Sarala Das, the fifteenth-century poet, is acknowledged as the “aadi kavi” of Odia literature. “Aadi kavi” is like a title. It literally means “the first poet”. But here, it must not be taken in that sense. It means the first major poet. He is the creator of the rich tradition of Odia puranic literature. He …
Sarala Mahabharata 