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Kisoracandranandacampu(Kishore-chandrananda-champu) is an epoch making literary production of campu variety and has earned enormous popularity among the people of Odisha. In the realm of Sanskrit Campu kavyas written in Odisha the Kishore-chandrananda-champu holds the pre-eminent position. Kishore-chandrananda-champu is a bilingual campu kavya written by Kavisurya Baladeva Ratha, a well known scholar both in Sanskrit and Oriya language. Taking the famous love episode of Radha and Krsna as the principal. theme the poet has composed this campu.' 3.1 Background of Krsna literature in Odisha Kishore-chandrananda-champu comes under the Krsna literature. There is a long and brightest tradition of Krsna literature in this state. In this state there are so many poems, dramas, and works of poetics which are composed by collecting the stories or incidents of Bhagavatam, Padmapuranam, the Mahabharatam etc. and the lila or amusement plays like Gopalila, Mathuralila and Dvarikalila. Krsna worship has prevailed in Odisha, long before Sricaitanya. Therefore, in Odia language an abundance Krsna literature is found from 14th century upwards. Before that Krsna literature was usually being written in Sanskrit. The best example is the Gitagovindam of the poet Jayadeva.2 According to some supporters of vaisnavism Krsna literature was expanded by the Vaisnava saints like. 1. Nanda, G.C., Contribution of Odishan authors to Sanskrit Campu literature, p. 120 2. Behera, K.C., Ed. Kisoracandranandacampu, p.99. 88

Nimbarka etc. There are some others who agreed that the centre of Vaisnavism in Odisha was Srikurmapitham (Now in Andhrapradesh). From that place the worship of Madhava was spread over the state. 3 Though the character of Krsna and Radha are found in the Sarala Mahabharata (Odia) but the picture of romantic play of Krsna has not been shown in that text. In the writings of poet Balarama Das, Jagannatha Das, Acyutananda Das etc. Krsna is mainly explained as divine and the supreme. Specially the imagination of Krsna as the shapeless, unattached supreme soul has been presented by these authors. After the expansion of Vaisnavism by Sricaitanya the stream of Krsna literature has been made enormous.