1898,] M. M. Chakravarti —Language and literature of Orissa. 361 
the wild flower bear comparison to the nelumbium ? The man that 
puts them on the same level must he shameless. [10]. Can jute have 
the same value as silk; can glass be compared to diamond ? Brass 
cannot be equal to silver; darkness cannot stay where the moon is- 
Similarly what ladies of Mathura can equal ye (Gopa girls) P ” 
Bhupati Pandita. 
• • 
The early Oriya poems about Krsna may be completed with 
Bhupati Pandita’s Premapancamrta. In the last Adhyaya of that 
work the author gives an account of himself. 1 A Sarasvata Brahmin 
from up-country he came to Orissa and attended the court of the king 
Divyasimha Deva. His poetical talents so much pleased the king 
that he gave him land with cash. He resided at Rathipura Kataka. 
Caitanya Dasa, a Vai^nava at Puri was his great friend, and under his 
instructions he composed the poem. Its writing was finished on Monday 
evening, the £ukla trayoda^ of the month makara, 18th aqka of the 
king Dibyasimka Deva. Accccrding to Prof. Jacobi’s Tables taken 
with Madaja Panji, 2 makara 9 ukla tray6da£i fell on Monday, the 3rd 
February, 1707 A.D. Bhupati Pandita is thus a contemporary of 
Upendra Bhanja. 
The Premapancamrta is a religious poem in ten Adhyayas, and 
has been printed. It describes the rasalila of pri-Krsna and the 
G5pis, but the original story has been amplified by the description of 
an imaginary pilgrimage of Vasudeva (7th Adliy.) and by metaphysical 
disquisitions of the Caitanya’s school. The lines are bald and generally 
unornamented. The versification is of the style adopted by Jagannatha 
Dasa in his Bkagabata. An extract is given here to show the author’s 
conceptions about Radka :— 
hkh ^rrarr hjihth i Tifwr ^tn Hnan sum n ^ n 
TTfW Hilt ifhft I S' HOT Hi^ft II 8 n 
hk% fSftt Hit: i u v. ii 
tch VHf snm i hTct Sxftt fast fan ii i n 
ft 5 ! Hpraia | VH1 S f TfnT H7I53 || « || 
ft wi HH? HUT Tt* I Vm S HT5? || *= II 
t Hit jftft ^WHfn I S Hit man fSfst II £ II 
2nd Adhyaya, p. 11. 
1 The passage (10th Adhyaya lines 194-238), though long is interesting, and is 
given in extenso in App. III. 
8 See App. IV. for “the later kings of Khordii” beginning with this Divyasimha 
Deva. 
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