Madhusudan Rao
{{Short description|Poet from Odisha, India}}
{{Other people|Madhusudan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
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|name = Madhusudan Rao
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1853|01|29|df=y}}
|birth_place = Puri, Odisha, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1912|12|28|1853|01|29|df=y}}
|occupation = Poet, Essayist
|nationality = Indian
|genre = Poetry
|notableworks = Prabandhamala, Barnabodha
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Madhusudan Rao (29 January 1853 – 28 December 1912) was an Odia poet and writer from India. He was known as Bhaktakabi. His most well known work is the Chhabila Madhu Barnabodha. He was also a prominent acharya of the Brahmo Samaj.
Life
He was born on 29 January 1853 in the district of Puri. He was a prominent Odia poet and essayist widely considered as the Father Of Modern Odia Poetry, by adding foreign (western) lyrical elements and experimentation. He died on 28 December 1912.{{cite book|author=Binod Sankar Das|title=Glimpses of Orissa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ex8OAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=5 March 2018|year=1986|publisher=Punthi Pustak|page=138}}
Works
He is known as Bhaktakavi of Odia and is considered the father of modern (using western lyrical forms) Odia poetry.{{Citation needed|date= June 2022}}
- In collaboration with Radhanath Ray, he published two volumes, one each in 1873 and 1874, of collections of poems entitled Kavitabali.
- His other poetry collections, which also consist of compositions used as lyrics for songs, comprise:
- Chhandamala (Vol. 1, 188; Vol. 2, 1895),
- Sangitamala (1894),
- Basanta Gatha (1910),
- Kusumanjali (1903) and
- Utkalgatha (1908).
- Prabandhamala, published in 1880, is a collection of essays in Odia.{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri-Sarvasena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOsbAAAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=((81-260-1003-1))|pages=3585–3586}}{{cite book|author=Swarupa Gupta|title=Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjE9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|accessdate=5 March 2018|date=30 October 2017|publisher=BRILL|location=Boston|isbn=978-90-04-34976-6|page=80}}
- Apart from writing essays, he translated a few works from Sanskrit and English into Odia. They were published in Utkal Darpan, a literary journal.
- He wrote two short stories.
- He translated the Uttararamacarita of Bhavabhuti into Odia.
- He also contributed to children's literature.
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Chandamala | publisher=The Arunodya Press | year=1898 | oclc=499869715 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Mahadebi Bhiktoria | publisher=The Utkal Sahitya Press | year=1901 | oclc=499865497 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Madhusudana granthabali | publisher=Grantha Mandira | year=1983 | oclc=499128674 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Ucca siksaka suhrda | year=1912 | oclc=1046989696 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Karnna badha | publisher=The Brajendra Press | year=1922 | oclc=499865888 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Basanta Gatha | publisher=Phrends Pablisars | year=1983 | oclc=499610376 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | title=Barnabodha | publisher=The I.S.S.D. Press | year=1944 | oclc=499519106 | language=or}}
- {{cite book | last=Rao | first=Madhusudan | last2=Kabi | first2=Asita | title=Kusumañjali : alocana saha | publisher=Niushtudentas Shtora | year=1972 | oclc=6304045 | language=or}}
References
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{{Commons|File:Barnabodha (1901).pdf|Barnabodha}}
External links
- {{Internet Archive author|sname=Madhusudan Rao}}
{{Odia literature}}
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Category:Poets from British India
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Category:19th-century Indian poets
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