He would then take ride on his horse accompanied by the Sixteen Brhamin Patras for twenty to thirty miles before returning. After the conquest of the fort Govinda Vidyadhara, a traitor who happened to be a high ranking commander of the Odia ranks changed sides in his greed for the throne of Odisha and joined the Sultan of Bengal. This team and family went through a lot while making this film. Prataparudra Deva made it mandatory for only Jayadeva's Gitagovinda to be sung at while the Odia and Telugu Devadasis (temple dancers) while they performed. Ramananda Rai records about the kings extreme willingness to hear about devotional sermons from Chaitnya in his work Jagannatha-Vallabha-Natakam. For a brief time he was able to capture Vijayanagara or Vidyanagar fort. The Boya chiefs of the Eighteen Kampanas together with 3,00,000 infantry of the Vijayanagar's army devastated and plundered the country dependent on Kondavidu, Kondapalli, Bellamkonda, Vinukonda, Nagarjuna Konda and other forts. [10] Two leading followers of Chaitanya, Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami were courtiers in the administration of Hussain Shah before accompanying Chaitanya in his travel to Odisha. 200 Crs for Gunasekhar’s Next . Prataparudra Deva (Odia: ଗଜପତି ପ୍ରତାପରୁଦ୍ର ଦେବ) was the last Gajapati emperor of Odisha from the Suryavamshi dynasty started by his grandfather Kapilendra Deva Routaraya. After the fall of Kondapalli, the Odia controlled smaller forts in Telegana region like Khamammettu, Anantagiri, Kanakgiri, Nalagonda, Udrakonda, Urlagonda, etc. A success meet was conducted last night, where the team was present and spoke about the success of Rudhramadevi. The Sultan of Bengal Alauddin Hussain Shah sent his commander Ismail Ghazi with an invasion force to attack Odisha when the Gajapati was and most of his army was on the expedition of southern India. The governor of the southern territories of the Gajapati Ramananda Rai who was based at Rajamahendri was influenced by Chaitanya's words and left his position to follow him while the conditions in the southern frontiers were critical, enduring the invasion of Vijayanagar. In his first meeting with the saint after a long wait and as planned by his disciples, he began reciting a verse from ‘Gopi Gita’, mentioned in Shrimad Bhagavatam and won the attention of Chaitanya. After a brief fighting for two months at the Kondapalli Fort by the combined Odia and Qutb Shahi forces, it fell to Vijayanagar forces. The Odia army didn't retreat instead continued to hold up the Muslim armies on the northern frontiers reinforced by the orders of the Gajapati. Numerous literary works from the era celebrate the spiritual association of Gajapati Prataparudra Deva with Chaitnya. His successors were murdered by the treacherous Govinda Vidyadhara after his death. But, for me it was Anusha’s. Varaha Temple build by his Rajguru or royal head priest called Kashi Mishra at Jajpur district. User Reviews The doubt of historians is based on the fact that the enemy Bengal Sultan Hussain Shah played a role in the life of Chaitanya. [4], According to the Rajavrolu plates of Prataparudra Deva and Madala Panji records, the Gajapati was camping on the river Ponnaiyar river banks and was successful in occupying parts of Vijayanagar for a brief time from Viranarasimha Raya after driving out the inmates of the fortified city there. The Vijayanagar forces had to erect square wooden sheds around the fort and demolished the rampart walls for occupying the tower of the fort. Other Odia poets like Chaitanya Dasa, Arjuna Dasa, Kanhai Khuntia, Gopala Guru, Madhavi Devi and Madhaba Pattanayaka also flourished during his rule giving new dimensions to the literary achievements of Odia language in that era. Four Vaishnava singers were trained to perform the service of singing Gitagovinda verses. [1], On the death of Purushottam Deva, Prataparudra Deva was immediately engulfed with the defensive measures for his empire from the consistently invading parties of Gauda or Bengal sultan Alauddin Hussain Shah. On the advise of Timmarusu and the increasing ferocity of the Odia forces, he halted his forces at Simhadri where he made some donations at the famous Varahalakshmi Narasimha temple and commissioned the building of the outer walls of the temple. Sarpeswar temple in Balarampur village near Kakhadi. Rama Rao, Gummadi, S. Varalakshmi, Devika, Mudigonda Lingamurthy, Relangi Venkata Ramaiah, Dhulipala, Mukkamala, Prabhakar Reddy, Director: Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao, Music: Pendyala Nageshwara Rao, Prouducer: Atluri Pundarikakshaiah, N. Ramabrahmam, Release Date(s) 1962. ShashikanthMadhav. One of his queens called Gauri Devi was the disciple of Jagannatha Dasa from the Panchasakha fold.