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give me an essay in Odia srunkhala 200 words​

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The script in the edicts of Ashoka in 2nd century BC at Dhauli and Jaugada and the inscriptions of Kharavela in Hati Gumpha of Khandagiri give us the first glimpse of possible origin of the Odia language.

From the point of view of language, the inscriptions of Hati Gumpha are near modern Odia and essentially different from the language of the Ashokan edicts. Pali was the prevalent language in Odisha during this period. The Hati Gumpha inscriptions, which are in Pali, are perhaps the only evidence of stone inscriptions in Pali. This may be the reason why the German linguist Prof. Hermann Oldenburg mentioned that Pali was the original language of Odisha.

Traces of Odia words and expressions have been found in inscriptions dating from the 7th century AD. According to scholars, the origin of Odia can be traced back to the 8th or 9th century, but literary works of merit appeared only in the 13th century.

It was in the 14th century, with Saraladasa’s Odia version of Mahabharata, that Odia literature assumed a definite character. Five poets emerged towards the 16th century: Balaram Das, Jagannath Das, Achyutananda Das, Ananta Das and Jasobanta Das.

They are collectively known as ‘Panchasakhas’, since they adhered to the same school of thought, Utkaliya Vaishnavism. The Panchasakha converted ancient Hindu texts into prose (of simple language) easily understood by the people of Udra Desha (Odisha). Achyutananda Das was the most prolific writer of the Panchasakhas.