12 Facts About Sarala Dasa

The early life of Sarala Dasa is not accurately known.

Sarala Dasa was a contemporary of the Gajapati King Kapilendra Deva.

Sarala Dasa was born at a village called kanakavati patana known as Kanakapura at the Tentuliapada, Jagatsinghpur district.

Sarala Dasa had no organized early education, and what he achieved through self-education was attributed to the grace of Sarala, goddess of devotion and inspiration.

Sarala Dasa spent his last time at Bila Sarala but the native place Kanakavati Patana known as Kanakapura at Tentuliapada with a religious establishment known as Munigoswain, which marks as the traditional spot, where he composed his works.

The Adi Parva Mahabharata opens with a long invocation addressed to the Lord Jagannatha of Puri, from which it is known that Sarala Dasa started writing his Mahabharata in the reign of Kapileswar, otherwise known as Kapilendra Deva, the famous Gajapati king of Odisha.

Sarala Dasa tells us that Maharaja Kapilesvara with innumerable offerings and many a salute was serving this great deity and hereby destroying the sins of the Kali age.

The verse of Sarala Dasa is simple, forceful and musical, without artificiality.

All Sarala Dasa's works were composed with this metrical peculiarity, and so the metre used by him can be regarded as a direct descendant of that used in the folk songs.

The predominant sentiment in Sarala Dasa's poem is not love but war.

Sarala Dasa was motivated by a strong religious zeal to compose religious books in a language intelligible to all and to make them available to the general public in Odisha.

Sarala Dasa tells in no uncertain words that he composed his poems for the benefit of "human beings".