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[[File:Janana Baladeba Ratha (Odia).ogg|thumb|A person singing the "kehi sariki, prabhu pane nilādrī keśarīki" poem of Baladeba Ratha]]Ratha was an [[Odissi music|Odissi musician]] and scholar. He composed poems as a [[Vaishnava]], in devotion to Lord Vishnu. He was associated with a group of poets, which included Dinakrushna Dasa and Abhimanyu Samantasinghara.<ref name="books.google">{{cite book|last=Nagendra|title=Indian Literature|year=1988|publisher=Prabhat Prabhashan|location=Delhi|page=454|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqGojPpe8DIC&q=kavi+surya+baladev+rath&pg=PA454}}</ref> His best-known works include ''Kabisurjya Granthavali'', ''Kabisurjya Geetabali'' and ''Kisora Chandrananda Chaupadi-Chautisa'', which combines the two literary forms of  ''chaupadi'' (a poem having four stanzas (though the term came to refer to any short song in latter times), and ''chautisa'' (a 34-stanza poem where every stanza begins with a new letter of the [[Oriya alphabet|Odia alphabet]]). ''Kisora Chandrananda Champu'' is noted for its emotional quotient and the role it played in enforcing the ''riti'' school of Sanskrit literature. He was also the author of several [[champu]]s including ''Ratnakara Champu'', ''Premodaya Champu'' and ''Kisora Chandrananda Champu''.<ref name="orissa">{{cite journal|year=2004 |title=EMINENT LITERARY LUMINARIES OF ORISSA |url=http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/ORA-2004/pdf/eminent_literacy_luminaries_of_orissa.pdf |journal=Orissa Reference Annual |page=292 |access-date=27 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019045142/http://orissa.gov.in/e-magazine/orissaannualreference/ORA-2004/pdf/eminent_literacy_luminaries_of_orissa.pdf |archive-date=19 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Das|first=Sisir Kumar|title=A History of Indian Literature: 1800–1910 : Western Impact, Indian Response|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=55, 374|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&q=kavisurya&pg=PA374|isbn=9788172010065}}</ref> ''Kisora Chandrananda Champu'' has both Odia and Sanskrit compositions and it was the Odia part of the work that has been credited with cementing his literary reputation in the language.<ref name="books.google" />