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by the deity Jagannath to execute his poem, but at the time of writing the Ramayana he was a man of the world, living happily with his family and did not earn the name Matta-Balaram by becomIn ing an enthusiast ascetic following the teachings of Chaitanya. the last but one colophon of the Ramayana, the poet says that his father, Somnath Mahapatra, was a minister of the Raja and the name of his mother was Manomaya. Presumably Somnath was a descendant of Gopinath who was, as the Gopinathpura inscripThe poet says, he tions disclose, a minister of Kapilendra Deva, was thirty-two years old when he finished the epic, and that he versified the whole story of the Ramayana as he learnt it from the The whole poem was narration of the story by the Pandits. evidently recited by the poet by taking his seat in the Jaga-
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