Bhimabhoi Granthabali (Part-1) Odia Book

1. BhimabhoiGranthabali (Part-2) Odia Book Bhimabhoi(ca. 1855-94), a Kondh tribal poet of Orissa, has been hailed as a seer and visionary. Exponent of the Mahima or Alekha cult, he has woven philosophical and metaphysical ideas in simple, lyrical Oriya poetry. His bhgiansandbolisare on the lips of millions and are sung to the accompaniment of castanets and tambourine in the villages of Orissa. Though the contrast of conflicting concepts and situations, hi images and metaphors build an eerie and poignant poetic landscape trees flower but have no shade; flowers not only have colour but also poison in them rivers swell and surge and meteors shoot down to the arth; there is sea without water; dance to inaudible music; exotic bees of the spirit seek the nectar of realisation, reaching a stage of the language where ornamentation is inappropriate and rhetoric out of place. Folk idiom and colloquial speech make his language earthy, vibrating with intense emotion, ranging from insistent supplication to righteous anger, and from abject surrender to indignant moral assertion. Bhima Bhoi’s contribution to the making of Oriya literature is unparalleled,

2. BhimabhoiGranthabali (Part-1) Odia Book