Sarala Mahabharat

Here I will post some short pieces on Sarala Mahabharata. Sarala Das is known as the "aadikavi" (the first poet) of Oriya Literature. He lived and wrote in the 15th Century. Mahabharat is his magnum opus. The episodes in Sarala's Mahabharat are significantly different from those in Vyasa's (Sanskrit) Mahabharat. Some of these posts have been translated into French, German and Hindi.

Friday, November 28, 2025

TO WHAT PURPOSE, THIS CHARACTER KIRATASENA?

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  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,...
Monday, November 24, 2025

KIRATASENA'S MOKSHA

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  Kiratasena, the king of the kiratas, the forest-dwellers, went to the Kurukshetra War for glory and for revenge but ended up attaining mok...
Monday, November 17, 2025

ON BONDING WITH ONE"S KULA (Contrasting Perspectives in "Sarala Mahabharata" and "Vyasa Mahabharata")

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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 k...
Friday, November 14, 2025

AADI KAVI SARALA DAS

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  Sarala Das, the fifteenth-century poet, is acknowledged as the “ aadi kavi” of Odia literature. “ Aadi kavi ” is like a title. It literal...
Monday, July 21, 2025

ON GOING TO SWARGA ALIVE (SAME EVENTS, DIFFERENT NARRATIVES, DIFFERENT INSIGHTS)

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  The composition of the timeless epic, Mahabharata , did not give contentment to the great poet, so   goes the legend. Sage Narada told him...
Monday, May 19, 2025

BHIMA AND KRISHNA: A RELOOK

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  Different from each other in a hundred ways, Bhima and Krishna share one personality trait in Sarala Mahabharata , which is a remarkably  ...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

THE WAR CODE: ANOTHER VIEW

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  War between the Pandavas and the Kauravas was imminent. In the assembly of the warriors who had joined him, Duryodhana appealed to them to...
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