Literary critic: Pandit Gopinatha Nandasharma

Abstract

Pandit Gopinath Nandasharma, is a well-known Odia linguist, lexicographer, translator, poet, writer and scholar. Pandit Nanda Sharma is the first Odia dictionary writer who had completed the work for this dictionary in 1903, which was published in 1916. He is known as the Panini of Odia Sahitya. In this paper I emphasized the critical outlook of Pandit Gopinath Nanda Sharma regarding “Sarala Mahabharata written by “sudra muni” Sarala Das, who belongs to the 15^th century, is known as the first major poet (the aadi kavi) of Odia literature.