Ramananda Ray ( IAST: Rāmānanda Rāya) lived in the Indian state of Odisha (Oḍiśā) during the latter part of the 15th century to around the middle part of the 16th century CE and was the author of the celebrated drama Jagannatha Vallabha Natakam. He was the son of Bhavananda Raya, a resident of the village of Alalanatha (Brahmagiri) about 12 miles west of Puri, Odisha.Their family belonged to a noted

Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...

Karana community. Ramananda Raya had four brothers named Gopinatha Badajena (Governor of Midnapore),Kalanidhi, Sudhanidhi, and Vaninatha Nayaka. He and his brother Gopinath Badajena served as governors under Gajapati

Prataparudra Deva Prataparudra Deva ( Odia: ଗଜପତି ପ୍ରତାପରୁଦ୍ର ଦେବ) was the third Gajapati emperor of Odisha from the Suryavamsa Gajapati Empire started by his grandfather Kapilendra Deva Routaraya. He ruled from the year 1 ...

of the

Gajapati Empire The Gajapati Empire or the Suryavamsa ( IAST: Sūryavaṃśa, "Solar dynasty") dynasty was a medieval dynasty from the Indian subcontinent, it originated in the region of Trikalinga (most of the present-day Odisha and North coastal Andhra) ...

from 1497 to 1540 CE, and his main office was being the governor of Rajamahendri (

Rajamahendravaram Rajahmundry, officially known as Rajamahendravaram, is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and District headquarters of East Godavari district. It is the sixth most populated city in the state. During British rule, the District of Rajah ...

of Andhra Pradesh) on the bank of the

Godavari The Godavari (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ''Godāvarī'' Help:IPA/Sanskrit, �od̪aːʋəɾiː is India's second longest river after the Ganges river, Ganga river and drains into the third largest basin in Indi ...

river.

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