Banamali Dasa
{{Short description|Indian Odia poet (1720–1793)}}
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Banamali Dasa ({{IPA|or|bɔnɔmaːl̪i d̪aːsɔ|lang|LL-Q33810 (ori)-Prateek Pattanaik-ବନମାଳୀ ଦାସ.wav}}; 1720–1793) was an Indian medieval Odia bhakta-poet and composer of Odissi music from the state of Odisha. "Dinabandhu daitari",{{Cite news|title = A musical treat|url = http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article333710.ece?service=print|archive-url = https://archive.today/20151114074827/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article333710.ece?service=print|url-status = dead|archive-date = 14 November 2015|accessdate = 8 November 2015|newspaper = New Indian Express|date = 19 January 2012}} "Kede chanda jane lo sahi", and "Manima he etiki maguni mora" are some of his notable writings that are used in Odissi. His songs are popularly sung in festivals, public gatherings, and in Odissi dance. Banamali's compositions (especially chaupadis and jananas) are set to traditional Odissi ragas and talas and are used in the Odissi music repertoire.{{Cite book|last=Parhi|first=Dr. Kirtan Narayan|title=The Classicality of Orissi Music|publisher=Maxcurious Publications Pvt. Ltd.|year=2017|isbn=9788193215128|location=India|pages=383}} He is considered to be the foremost poet of the medieval Odia bhakti-literature.{{cite book|author=Janaki Ballabha Mohanty|title=Banamali Das|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNi10M-NkOYC|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-449-0}} He started by writing rustic devotional poetry but later began composing "bhakti" poetry, which gained wider acceptance and popularity among contemporary poets.{{cite book|author=Ayyappappanikkar|title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA412|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0365-5|page=412}} Banamali Dasa was patronised by Gajapati Birakishore Deva of Bhoi dynasty whom the poet also praised in his writings.{{Cite book |last=Pani |first=Subas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLdjAAAAMAAJ&q=banamali+dasa+birakishore+deva |title=Blue Hill, Hymns to Jagannatha: Translations from Oriya & Sanskrit |date=2004 |publisher=Rupa & Company |isbn=978-81-291-0371-0 |language=en}}
Early life
{{Odissi Classical Music sidebar}}As Dasa's birth and death are unrecorded, various researchers speculate various years. In a research publication, researcher Janaki Ballabh Mohanty has cited his birth year around 1720-30 and his death year as being unknown. Other publications have his birth year as 1720 and his death year as 1793.
He was born in a Karana family, as written in one of his earlier poems where he explicitly mentions his surname Pattanayaka, used by the Karanas of ancient Odisha.{{Cite book |last=Mohanty |first=Janaki Ballabha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNi10M-NkOYC&q=Karan |title=Banamali Das |date=1993 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-7201-449-0 |language=en}} The surname is still in use in India.
He spent most of his life in Puri.
Music
Banamali's creations are frequently sung in classical Odissi music concerts & enacted in the abhinaya part of Odissi dance. He is known to have composed over 400 songs; Odissi, Chhanda, Bhajana, Janana, Chautisa and more. He is not known to have written any single kavya, but rather a large number of individual songs. The Ragas used by Banamali in his works are unique ragas of the Odissi music tradition. Some of these ragas include:
Asabari, Bangala, Bangalasri, Baradi, Basanta, Basanta Kedara, Bhairaba, Bhairabi, Bhatiari, Bhupala, Bibhasha, Chakra Kedara, Chinta Kedara, Dakhina Kamodi, Desa Baradi, Desakhya, Dhanasri, Dhipa, Gadamalia, Gujjari, Jayanta, Jayanti, Jhinjoti, Kalyana, Kamodi, Kaphi, Karnata, Kasmira, Kedara, Kedaragouda, Khambaja, Khanda Bangalasri, Kolahala, Kousika, Krusna Kedara, Kumbha Kamodi, Kumbha Kedara, Kusuma Kedara, Lalita Kamodi, Lalita Kedara, Madana Kedara, Madhusri, Malaba, Mangala, Mangala Baradi, Mangala Kedara, Marua, Matiari, Mohana, Mohana Kedara, Mukhabari, Nalinigouda, Natakurangi, Paraja, Pattamanjari, Punnaga, Purabi, Ranabije, Rasakadamba, Rasakedara, Saberi, Sankarabharana, Saranga, Sauri, Sindhu Kamodi, Soka Kamodi, Sri, Suratha, Todi, Todiparaja.{{Cite book|last=Das|first=Ramhari|title=Odissi Sangeetara Parampara O Prayoga|publisher=Kaishikee Prakashani|year=2004|location=Bhubaneswar, Odisha|language=or|script-title=or:ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ ସଙ୍ଗୀତର ପରମ୍ପରା ଓ ପ୍ରୟୋଗ|trans-title=The tradition and method of Odissi music|author-link=Ramhari Das}}{{Cite book|last=Dasa|first=Banamali|title=Banamali Padyabali|publisher=Arunodaya Pustakalaya|year=1934|editor-last=Dasa Goswami|editor-first=Babaji Baishnaba Charana|location=Cuttack|language=Odia}}{{Cite book|last=Parhi|first=Dr. Kirtan Narayan|title=Odisi Sangita : Kichi Jana Ajana Tathya|publisher=Ink Odisha, Bhubaneswar|year=2007|pages=34|language=Odia|trans-title=Odissi music : Some known and unknown facets}}
Selected works
= Poetry =
- "Dinabandhu daitari"
- "Manima he eitiki maguni mora"
- "Kede chanda jane lo sahi"
- "Dukhanasana he sukha na paili dine"
- "Jaya Jagannatha he Jasoda kumara"
- "Ke Murali Bajauchhi Brundabane Go"
References
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Category:18th-century Indian poets