233 wane. In the modern times when there was an emphasis on vak ohanda and dpsti chanda and a conscious effort to bring literature nearer to the spoken word, the traditional tenet have very little to offer by way of model. Sanskrit for the modern writer in search of an identity is a bright star in the distant horizon from which he is at the best eager to draw sustenance in relating his immediate present with the traditiono Oriya language through the ages has been indebted to Sanskrit in style, content, mode, taste, syntax, meter, diction and other components. Sanskrit opened up the vast cultural treasure of ancient Indian to the Oriya poets, who freely drew upon its generous bounty to enrich indigenous literature. The large bulk of tatsama and tadhhava vocabulary cannot be understood without reference to Sanskrito The contributions of Oriya scholars to Sanskrit literature and scholarship is a subject of special discourse. But scholarship in Sanskrit and creativity in Oriya had gone hand in hand for almost seven hundred years, whether it has been for purposes of bringing the language closer to Sanskrit or establish it on its own away from Sanskrit.