About Raghu Arakhita

Rinky21 Sep, 2022Business

Raghu Arakhita was a great devotee of Lord Jagannath. Reference to this devotee occurs in Madalapanji, the chronicle of the temple of Lord Jagannath, and in a few other ancient literary works. It is probable that he lived during the reign of Prataprudra Deb (1497-1540), the Gajapati king of odisha, and was perhaps a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya. Rama Das (18th c.) in his Dadhyata bhakti, a popular biographical work in verse, has elaborately written about the life of this devotee.