Madhavi Pattanayak
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BornBentapura, Puri District
OccupationPoet
LanguageOdia
SubjectReligious Poetry
Madhavi Pattanayak | |
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| Born | Bentapura, Puri District |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Odia |
| Subject | Religious Poetry |
Madhavi Pattanayak (or Madhavi Dasi, 16th-century CE) was one of the earliest female poets to write in the Odia language. She was a disciple of Sri Chaitanya and a contemporary of the famous Pancha Sakha poets in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.