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By Pratibha Ray

Moorti Devi winner

Published By Adya Prakashan  

1st Edition 1985
83rd Edition 2014
 
Yajnaseni
But her almost meteoric rise to national fame flows mostly from her Yagnaseni (Daughterof Yagnasena in the Mahabharat) which epitomizes the famed  Mahabharat heroine Draupadi as a modern woman with an identity of her own. Pratibha’s Draupadi is illustrative of what she herself has said in several interviews, a sort of humanist feminism” without the rigour or rancour of a Julia Kristeva or Luce Irrigaray. This’ Draupadi is in the tradition of the classical feminine as envisaged by Vyasa and other Vedic philosophers: yet she is sophisticated, knowledgeable, well-versed in fine arts, warfare and even the dice game. She is magnanimous and self-eschewing almost transcending the milieu which she inherits. She does not display a scheming mind or a stubborn individualism even while seeking revenge for her ignominy in the royal court of Dhritarashtra during the dice game, in which she is lost as a wager to Duryodhan. She asks like a  contemporary woman the questions which disturb the ethics of the dice game and the principles of Yudhisthira’s husbandhood. Draupadi is a perfect blend of an eastern, (Indian) woman of love, sympathy, grace, selfhood and divinity. The Akshaya Patra (The Everfull Pot) in her hands during the period of the forest life of the Pandavas never leave even the birds, beasts and insects unfed. Her temper, rage, hate and disposition are so integrated that she grows out of the Vyasa frame who owns up her weaknesses and failings as a woman free, wise and subtle. Pratibha uses the epic facts and modulates them with modern feminine outlook to make her our contemporary. Her maturity as wife to the five Pandava brothers, her travails and trepidations, her regality as well as feminine grace make Pratibha’s Draupadi more ennobling than a Cleopatra without, however, the tragic mould.
 
Pratibha Ray 
 
Yajnaseni(Oriya Novel By Pratibha Ray) proved itself as a best seller for its readability among rural female half literate readers. She attributed the boldness, the revolt and humanism in her literature, to the impact of Vaishnavism. Ray's literary journey started at nine, she received recognition as a writer with her first novel Barsa Basanta Baishakha in 1974 followed byAranya, 1977, Nishidha Prithivi, 1978, Parichya, 1979, Aparichita, 1979 (a film was made and won Best Film-Story award from the state government)
She was awarded

1985 – 'Orissa Sahitya Academi Award' for her novel 'Sheelapadma'
1990 – 'Sarala Award' for her novel 'Yajnaseni'
1991 – 'Moortidevi Award' for her Novel 'Yajnaseni
2000 – 'Sahitya Akademi Award' for her Short-Story Collection 'Ullaghna'
2006 – 'Amrita Keerti Puraskar
2007 – 'Padma Shri Award' in Literature and Education by the Government of India.
2011 – 'Jnanpith Award

Yajnaseni (Odia Novel )