Classical Odia

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Odia is an ancient language with a great heritage of more than two thousand years. A huge amount of knowledge is preserved in oral as well as written forms in different subjects. Beginning from a number of inscriptions, a large number of palm leaf manuscripts and printed books and journals it preserved many valuable documents. The subject areas include Mythology, Anthropology, History, Culture, Temple Architecture, Astronomy, Ayurveda, Agriculture, Lexicography and Classical Kavya literature. Materials on all these areas will be preserved in this collection for use by the public. One can search any kind of knowledge in Odia language in this portal. This will be accessible to all sections of people. This portal will offer open knowledge for all educational purposes.

This portal will provide knowledge from all available sources and further will try to create knowledge in specific fields. The Centre of Excellence for Studies in Classical Odia with the help of CIIL will try to make this portal unique in its knowledge repository.

We hope and expect that more people will utilise this digital platform for wider dissemination of our classical heritage through our mother tongue. This will fulfil the prime objective of NEP.

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ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ ପୁରାଣ
(Odisha Sahitya Akademi Bhubaneswar, 1984) ବଳରାମ ଦାସ Balaram Das; Jatindra Mohan Mohanty ଯତୀନ୍ଦ୍ର ମୋହନ ମହାନ୍ତି
Laxmi Puran, by Balaram Dasa, author of popular Ramayan, is a unique literary product propagating the superiority of the quite unostetentatious life of a woman to the noisy activities of a man .Even today, after 500 years this book provides one of the finest most highly edifying and intensely entertaining folk tale in Orissa. The theme and spirit of this small book have become an integral part of the National life and national consciousness in Odisha, an indication of the powerful influence. This literature can exercise over the mass mind it treated by the great poet. It is more relevant because of the modernism of its attitude towards the position of women at home and in the society and to the caste system and general social standards. It may be considered the first subaltern text in Indian literature.
ଚଉତିଶା ସମଗ୍ର
(Odisha Sahitya Akademi Bhubaneswar, 2017) Dr. Surendranath Panigrahi ଡକ୍ଟର ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ରନାଥ ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀ
ଗୀତାଭିଧାନ
(Tara Press, 1977) ଉପେନ୍ଦ୍ର ଭଞ୍ଜ Upendra Bhanja; Sridhar Satapathy ଶ୍ରୀଧର ଶତପଥୀ
Gitabhidhan- the first Dictionary of Odia language written in poetry by Kabisamrat Upendra Banja in seventeenth century is a unique example in Indian Languages. This text is typically a thesaurus like the famous Amara Kosa in Sanskrit containing thousands of synonyms signifying the words with meanings. Upendra Bhanja, most celebrated poet of medieval age who has shown his Excellence in various forms of archaic poetry has composed this dictionary in poetry as one of the brilliant example of word play in 17th century.
ଶ୍ରୀମଦ୍‍ ଭାଗବତ
(Odisha Sahitya Akademi Bhubaneswar, ) ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ Jagannath Das; Pandit Nilamani Mishra ପଣ୍ଡିତ ନୀଳମଣି ମିଶ୍ର
Odia Bhagavat by Jagannath Dasa is not only his Magnum -opus but the greatest creation of Odia literature which shaped the standard Odia language. A few books in the whole of Indian literature that can be compared in test and in pervasive influence like Odia Bhagavat. By presenting to the people the poet induced all classes of men of his country to cultivate Odia language the benefit which Jagannath Das has conferred open his countrymen is immense how the moral ideas preached by him in the book have module the character of many millions of men. What makes Jagannath Das’s Bhagavat is popular with Oriya masses as is the English Bible among the English speaking people is just what is called the biblical idiom in English Jagannath Das’s Bhagavat is a miracle of translation. Its accurate, precise and clear. General Aroma of sanctity it's soft fluency its quite dignity and the sublime of high moral in spiritual life it reaches so straight into the hearts of readers of all the books in Odia literature it is the Bhagavat of Jagannath Das that one comes across the mysterious and devotional feeling. Combining the classical Sanskrit with Odia idioms and phrases, choosing only what is elegant and rhythmic diction instinctively carrying more for beauty of expression than for pedantic accuracy and ser charging the whole subtle mystic atmosphere in which details may not be clear at once, but the totality is charming to the mind as well as to the ear. Jagannath Das has left behind a style in Odia which for its chastity , elegance, dignity and beauty still remains inimitable among the masses of Odisha.
ସୀସୁ ବେଦ
(Odisha Sahitya Akademi Bhubaneswar, 1984) ନାଥ ଯୋଗୀ Natha Jogi; Jatindra Mohan Mohanty ଯତୀନ୍ଦ୍ର ମୋହନ ମହାନ୍ତି
Sisu Veda is a remarkable production in more ways than one Saivite in content; it is linguistically the last lingering echo of the Buddhist Apabhransa compositions of 7th to 9th century. This Sisu Veda is the unmistakable link between that Apabhransa and modern Odia of Sarala Dasa completing the chain that started with the inscription of Kharabela in the first century BC and evolved slowly but steadily by a simple natural process. Dealing with the esoteric knowledge of tantra this is written throughout in lilting metres of the Buddhist lyrics and hence it is pleasant both to read and to hear. Much more remarkable than the verses at the prose commentaries following each verse in this text. This archaic prose speaks of its own antiquity. It has the hesitant manner and the half articulate character of a Pioneer attempt. It undoubtedly belongs to the same category as the temple inscriptions of the 12th- 13th centuries. There is no doubt that this is the earliest literary prose in Odia.

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