Madhavi Pattanayak

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Who is Madhavi Pattanayak?

Madhavi Pattanayak is considered the first woman poet in the Oriya language. She was a contemporary of the famous Pancha Sakha poets in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. She was born in Bentapura village of Puri district in a Karana family and was the sister of Raya Ramananda Pattanayak. Her chosen path was that of devotion to the god Jagannath. She wrote religious poetry in the mid-16th century.

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on July 23, 2013

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