Palas of Sri Kavi Karna

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PËLËS OF áRI KAVI KARÛA

Compiled, edited and translated by BISHNUPADA PANDA

1991, 4 vols., ci+1181 pp., maps, illus., gloss., ISBN: 81-208-0958-0 (set), Rs 1200 (HB)

The palas were composed by Karna in Bengali in the late seventeenth century in honour of God Satyanarayana. Recitation of Kavi Karna's Solo Pala or sixteen musical compositions glorifying Lord Satyanarayana, who is identified with Satyapir, is widely prevalent in contemporary Orissa. The Satyanarayana vrata kathas are found in all the Indian languages. The name Satyapir is found in no other vrata katha except in the palas of Kavi Karna and Bengali vrata kathas. the particular sequence of the sixteen palas, as Kavi Karna wished to maintain, has been followed in this work.

The text of the Palas has been critically edited in this edition in Bengali and Devanagari scripts and translated into lucid English Prose.

BISHNUPADA PANDA a distinguished scholar of both Oriya and Bengali, was educated at the University of Calcutta and obtained his Ph.D. and D.Litt., degrees from that University. Author of about 28 books and 150 research papers, he had been teaching in the Regional College of Education, Bhubaneswar. He has translated a number of Oriya Poems and short stories into Bengali and English. He is also a recipient of the Sarojini Basu Medal of the University of Calcutta.



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