Biday Abhishap

Tobu jete dite hoi, Florida 2010

Rabindranath settled his family life at Jorasanko when Mrinalini came back from Solapur with her children.This time Rabindranath went to Orissa and took Balendranath along with him. At Cuttak he remained as guest in the house of Biharilal Gupta who was district judge at that time. He went to Puri on horseback from Cuttak. This was his first visit to Puri. From Puri they went to Konarak. For his zamindari work he went to different places in and around Cuttak such as Pandua, Balia, Tiran etc He wrote "Panchabhuter Diary" and returned to Calcutta by steamer. In Orissa he wrote many poems.  He also wrote "Biday Abhishap", a drama in verse- about Kach O Debjani.
It was learnt from the book of Prasanta Kr. Paul that the manuscript of 'Biday-Abhishap' was just a note-book of 34 pages of which the first two pages were blank  On the 2nd page there was a sketch of a male turned back and head hidden behind the knees drawn by a pencil. The  rest of the pages were  ruled in light blue-color of which there were 22 rules.The right hand pages only were used for writing and left side pages were kept for subsequent corrections and additions. The full text of the subject was written by pencil and at the end of the essay the date was written by ink written in Payar rhymes in 328 lines with many

corrections. But after completion.he didn't change any of its lines- no change was found in the first publication in 'Sadhana' and the later publication in his collection of writings. After its publication in 'Sadhana', the poet Nitai Krishna Basu wrote in his diary that Rabibabu had began to write mixing up Mitrakshar with Amitraksar, which gave the poetry a lovely appearence.