Madhavi Pattanayak (or Madhavi Dasi, 16th-century CE) is one of the earliest woman poet in the Odia language. She was a contemporary of the famous Pancha Sakha poets in the late fifteenth early sixteenth centuries. She was a disciple of Sri Chaitanya.
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She was born in Bentapura village of Puri district in a Karana family and was the cousin of Raya Ramananda, governor of Rajmahendri.She got widowed at an early age lived for a while at her cousin Raya Ramananda's house. There she along with her brother Sikhi Mohanty and Raya Ramananda became followers of Sri Chaitanya.[1]
Her chosen path was that of devotion to the god Jagannath. She wrote religious poetry in the mid-16th century.
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