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From the very beginning, there was no consensus among scholars regarding the compositions of Suradasa, the pioneer Mahakavi among the Krishna-bhakta poets of the medieval period. Surdasa (precise dates unknown, sixteenth century) is one of a handful of preeminentpoet-saints who composed in dialects belonging to the Hindi language family. Some scholars,in fact, rank Sur as the finest of all Hindi poets--certainly the finest of Krishna poets--and theimpact of his hagiography has been almost equally great[i]. According to some scholars, the total number of compositions of Suradasa is twenty-five, while some scholars believe that many of these twenty-five texts are parts of Sursagar, which have been stored separately