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Jagannath Das, fifteenth-century poet-mystic, author of the Oriya Bbagabata, and disciple of major mystic Shri Chaitanya, is a household name in Orissa. Scholars tend to agree that Das was born in 1490 and died in 1550. Hagiographical biographies of him date from about a century after his death Commentators have seen Das’s relationship with Chaitanya as a mystical love based on Krishna-Radha love and on the repudiation of conventional marriage and worldly life. In India the relationship between guru and disciple has for centuries institutionalized a shared, almost familial, life for men. I present here the least controversial aspects of the legend.
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See K. C. Mishra, Orissi Vaishnava Dharma (Bhubaneswar: Orissa Sahitya Akademi, 1980).
Quoted in Prallhad Charan Mohanti, “The Literary Value in the Bhagabata of Jagannath Das,” in Brajamohan Mohanti, ed., Bhaktakabi Jagannath Das (Cuttack: Orissa Book Store, 1990), 49.
Brajamohan Mohanti, Jagannath Das and Oriya Bhagabata Sanskriti (Cuttack: Orissa Book Store, 1990).
Quoted in Jagannath Patnaik, “Chaitanya’s Visit to Orissa as depicted in Chaitanya Charitamrita of Krishna Das Kaviraj,” in H. C. Das ed., Sri Chaitanya in the Religious Lift of India (Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1989), 137.
Jagannath Das, Granthabali (Bhubaneswar: Sahitya Akademi, 1972), passage translated by me.
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Satpathy, S. (2000). Jagannath Das (Oriya). In: Vanita, R., Kidwai, S. (eds) Same-Sex Love in India. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62183-5_13
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