Sarala das biography in oriya news
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Sudramuni Sarala Das, who belongs to the fifteenth century, is celebrated as the first major poet, the aadikavi, of Odia literature. To him can be traced the origin of the puranic literature in Odia and no one’s contribution to this genre is richer and more impactful than his. He composed three Puranas(some say he composed only “Mahabharata”) and decidedly the best and the most renowned of these is “Mahabharata”, popularly known as “Sarala Mahabharata”. A truly remarkable work, it is a re-conceptualization of the ancient story of “Mahabharata” and is a creative re-telling of it in the Odia language. It is the first complete rendering (i.e., of all the eighteen Parvas) of “Vyasa Mahabharata” in any language. And this is the first retelling of this great work in any language by a person who did not belong to a privileged caste.
In his magnum opus, Sarala asserted that he was born to expatiate on the Lila (divine play) of the Supreme God, Narayana. Thus, he used the story of the Kuru clan to celebrate the doings of Krishna, the purnaavatara (complete manifestation) of Narayana, and he called his Mahabharata “Vishnu Purana”. Quite appropriately, his narrative does not start with the sarpayajna (snake sacrifice) of Kin
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Odia-language Digital Resources and Literature are in High Demand. The Researcher, Fluent in Odia, has Resumed work on Digitising the Sarala Mahabharata
on Feb 05, 2024
Arlo Griffith, an Indologist and Sanskritist residing in France, has proposed the establishment of digital resources and the use of technology to preserve and promote the Odia language and literature.
Arlo, who spoke at the first World Odia Conference on Saturday, said he has begun working on digitising Sarala Das's 'Sarala Mahabharata'.
Arlo, the head of The Jakarta Centre at EFEO (French School of Asian Studies), has spent over a decade investigating the 'Paippalada' Atharvaveda tradition, which is still practiced in Odisha today. "While conducting study in Odisha, I stumbled across the Sarala Mahabharata and desired to read it.
This is when I understood I needed to scan it," said the professor, a philologist, Indologist, and Sanskritist who specialises in ancient epigraphy and Indian and Southeast Asian philology.
In 2008, he scanned the Sarala Mahabharata at the University of Leiden and then commissioned typists from South India to type the con
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Odia literature
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