About Padmanabh Srichandan

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Padmanabh Srichandan a poet in the tradition of ornate poetry (riti kavya), belonged to the royal family of Banki, in the district of Cuttack, and ruled from 1735 to 1757. odisha was then under the Muslim rule which was shortly followed by the Maratha rule. In ancient times, Balabhadra Dhall, a prince from Dhalbhumi came to Banki and became its king. The political history of Banki, a small principality, is later marked by the rule of a dynasty whose royal title, Srichandan, was granted either by the Raja of Puri or Khurda. Padmanabh was the contemporary of king Ramchandra II and Birakishore of Khurda.

Padmanabh was a person imbued with scholarship and poetic genius. He was also a lover of sports. His chief poetical work, Sashirekha, is an outstanding literary product divided into thirty-six cantos. It is an imaginative kavyadesigned on the model of the famous kavya Labanyabati by Upendra Bhanja, the most outstanding poet in the ornate genre. The first canto contains benediction, worship of Lord Jagannath, the union of Lakshmi Narayan and the prayer to Lord Jagannath to bless the poet to write and complete Sashirekha.


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