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STYLE" having fourteen alphabets in one line mentioned as follow where two lines are given as an example.
"GOPE ADHIPATI JE ATANTI NANDA RAI YE KAHNU SANKARSHAN JE TANKAR BENI POYE"
In the literary culture of Orissa this DAS Kathia Brutta holds much important place.
This incomplete manuscript is mutilated, moth-eaten and pe: haps kept carelessly in the unprotected place. The very appearanı of the palm leaves is a clear testimony to this. On account of ti missing palm leaves from the beginning as well as in the end as suc! carrying the message of Gopa Leela of Shrikrishna commencit from His birth, the name of the poet and title of the manuscript a missing. Though it is difficult rather of course not impossible, know the name of the poet at present, but taking the theme of th manuscript a title can be coined for the manuscript as "Gopa Leela'
From the existing part of the manuscript we do find the follow ing:
"In a cloudless sky, like the brilliant sun, Srikrishna is brilliant bright in the palm leaf manuscript.
His childhood centres rounds many wonderful and attractini incidents. Kansa, the then King of Mathura sent Putana wit poison on her nipples to kill the infant Srikrishna, but she was kille instead. Crane Asura had been sent to swallow the boy Srikrishn but he was torn to pieces. This is another example from th manuscript.
"PADILAKA BAKASURA BENI KHANDA HOEE POE TAHA DEKHU THANTI KHANDE DURE THAI”.
Both Balram and Srikrishna were invited to Mathura in order to attend the Dhanu-Yatra, in their childhood from Gopa Pura Kansa arranged the biggest and most ferocious elephants to tread them to death in Mathura. But these beasts were dashed to death in na time by the two brothers.
A herd of cattle had been stolen away by Brahma through thi sky from the Gopa Pura in order to test the divinity of Srikrishna To his utter surprise Srikrishna created in no time, another herdo cattle so exactly like those Bramha had stolen. In this way the trui incarnation of Vishnu had been testified by Bramha and restored to him the real herd of cattle.
With the fire of its passions the serpent Kaliya in Jamuna was a
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