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fratricidal struggle. 1 After expulsion Nilakantba settled, according to 
tradition, in the adjoining state of Nayagara. In that state how long 
Upendra resided is not known. He visited the PurusSttama Ksettra 
apparently frequently, as be knew it intimately. 2 Outside Orissa he 
mio-ht have travelled, of which travel some faint indications are 
traceable in his poems. By religion he was a Vaisnavite, leaning to 
Rama-worship, as his numerous closing lines and the Baidehisabilasa 
the poem on the career of Rama testify. 
Upendra Bhanja was a prolific author and composed some forty- 
three poems. The chronological sequence of these works cannot 
generally be ascertained. Probably most of the songs were among his 
earliest compositions, and Caupadibbusana is referred to in the early 
contemporaneous work, Bicitra Ramayana. Baidehisabilasa, accord¬ 
ing to tradition preceded the Labanyabati. Tbe Kotibrahmanda- 
sundari seems to be a work of matured years. The Citrakabya was 
composed much later and in its introduction refers to a large number of 
works, thus establishing a broad line of demarcation in point of time. 3 
1 The following stanza in Rasikaharaball (8th Ch. 25th stanza) might have 
some reference to his father’s loss of the throne :— 
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“ For a king to lose his kingdom, for a young man to lose his wife—says 
Upendra Bhanja Birabara—no misfortune can be greater than these. [25].” 
2 Upendra translated the Purusdttama Mahatmya, and composed the Rasika- 
harabali, a romance of that place. The Kotibrahmandasundari also begins with a 
description of Jagannatha’s temple and festivals. 
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