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{{Short description|Indian Odia poet (1720–1793)}}
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'''Banamali Dasa''' ({{IPA|or|bɔnɔmaːl̪i d̪aːsɔ|lang|LL-Q33810 (ori)-Prateek Pattanaik-ବନମାଳୀ ଦାସ.wav}}; 1720–1793) was an Indian [[Odia language|medieval Odia]] [[Bhakti movement|''bhakta-poet'']] and composer of [[Odissi music]] from the state of [[Odisha]]. "''Dinabandhu daitari''",<ref name="TNEJanuary2012">{{Cite news|title = A musical treat|url = http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article333710.ece?service=print|archive-url = https://archive.today/20151114074827/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article333710.ece?service=print|url-status = dead|archive-date = 14 November 2015|accessdate = 8 November 2015|newspaper = New Indian Express|date = 19 January 2012}}</ref> "''Kede chanda jane lo sahi''", and "''Manima he etiki maguni mora''" are some of his notable writings that are used in [[Odissi]]. His songs are popularly sung in [[Festivals of Odisha|festivals]], public gatherings, and in Odissi dance. Banamali's compositions (especially ''chaupadis and jananas'') are set to traditional Odissi ragas and talas and are used in the [[Odissi music]] repertoire.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Parhi|first=Dr. Kirtan Narayan|title=The Classicality of Orissi Music|publisher=Maxcurious Publications Pvt. Ltd.|year=2017|isbn=9788193215128|location=India|pages=383}}</ref> He is considered to be the foremost poet of the medieval [[Odia literature|Odia bhakti-literature]].<ref name="Mohanty1993">{{cite book|author=Janaki Ballabha Mohanty|title=Banamali Das|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNi10M-NkOYC|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-449-0}}</ref> He started by writing rustic [[Erotic Poetry|devotional poetry]] but later began composing "''bhakti''" poetry, which gained wider acceptance and popularity among contemporary poets.<ref name="Ayyappappanikkar1997">{{cite book|author=Ayyappappanikkar|title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA412|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0365-5|page=412}}</ref> Banamali Dasa was patronised by Gajapati Birakishore Deva of [[Bhoi dynasty]] whom the poet also praised in his writings.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pani |first=Subas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLdjAAAAMAAJ&q=banamali+dasa+birakishore+deva |title=Blue Hill, Hymns to Jagannatha: Translations from Oriya & Sanskrit |date=2004 |publisher=Rupa & Company |isbn=978-81-291-0371-0 |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
{{Odissi Classical Music sidebar}}As Dasa's birth and death are unrecorded, various researchers speculate various years. In a research publication, researcher Janaki Ballabh Mohanty has cited his birth year around 1720-30 and his death year as being unknown. Other publications have his birth year as 1720 and his death year as 1793.<ref name="Mohanty1993" />

He was born in a Karana family, as written in one of his earlier poems where he explicitly mentions his surname Pattanayaka, used by the [[Karan (caste)|Karanas]] of ancient Odisha.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mohanty |first=Janaki Ballabha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNi10M-NkOYC&q=Karan |title=Banamali Das |date=1993 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-7201-449-0 |language=en}}</ref> The surname is still in use in India.

He spent most of his life in Puri.

== Music ==
Banamali's creations are frequently sung in classical Odissi music concerts & enacted in the ''abhinaya'' part of Odissi dance. He is known to have composed over 400 songs; ''Odissi'', ''Chhanda'', ''Bhajana'', ''Janana'', ''Chautisa'' and more. He is not known to have written any single ''kavya'', but rather a large number of individual songs. The Ragas used by Banamali in his works are unique ragas of the Odissi music tradition. Some of these ragas include:

''Asabari, [[Bangala (raga)|Bangala]], [[Bangalasri]], [[Baradi]], Basanta, Basanta Kedara, Bhairaba, Bhairabi, Bhatiari, Bhupala, Bibhasha, Chakra Kedara, Chinta Kedara, Dakhina Kamodi, Desa Baradi, Desakhya, [[Dhanasri]], Dhipa, Gadamalia, [[Gujjari]], [[Jayanta (raga)|Jayanta]], Jayanti, Jhinjoti, Kalyana, [[Kamodi]], Kaphi, [[Karnata (raga)|Karnata]], Kasmira, [[Kedara (raga)|Kedara]], [[Kedaragouda]], Khambaja, Khanda Bangalasri, Kolahala, Kousika, Krusna Kedara, Kumbha Kamodi, Kumbha Kedara, Kusuma Kedara, Lalita Kamodi, Lalita Kedara, Madana Kedara, Madhusri, Malaba, [[Mangala (raga)|Mangala]], Mangala Baradi, Mangala Kedara, Marua, Matiari, Mohana, Mohana Kedara, Mukhabari, Nalinigouda, Natakurangi, Paraja, Pattamanjari, Punnaga, Purabi, Ranabije, Rasakadamba, Rasakedara, Saberi, Sankarabharana, Saranga, Sauri, Sindhu Kamodi, [[Soka Kamodi]], Sri, Suratha, Todi, Todiparaja.''<ref name=":32">{{Cite book|last=Das|first=Ramhari|title=Odissi Sangeetara Parampara O Prayoga|publisher=Kaishikee Prakashani|year=2004|location=Bhubaneswar, Odisha|language=or|script-title=or:ଓଡ଼ିଶୀ ସଙ୍ଗୀତର ପରମ୍ପରା ଓ ପ୍ରୟୋଗ|trans-title=The tradition and method of Odissi music|author-link=Ramhari Das}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dasa|first=Banamali|title=Banamali Padyabali|publisher=Arunodaya Pustakalaya|year=1934|editor-last=Dasa Goswami|editor-first=Babaji Baishnaba Charana|location=[[Cuttack]]|language=Odia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Parhi|first=Dr. Kirtan Narayan|title=Odisi Sangita : Kichi Jana Ajana Tathya|publisher=Ink Odisha, Bhubaneswar|year=2007|pages=34|language=Odia|trans-title=Odissi music : Some known and unknown facets}}</ref>

== Selected works ==

=== Poetry ===
* "''Dinabandhu daitari''"
* "''Manima he eitiki maguni mora''"
* "''Kede chanda jane lo sahi''"
* "''Dukhanasana he sukha na paili dine''"
* "''Jaya Jagannatha he Jasoda kumara''"
* "''Ke Murali Bajauchhi Brundabane Go''"

== References ==
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[[Category:Poets from Odisha]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]
[[Category:18th-century Indian male writers]]
[[Category:Odissi music composers]]

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