Brajabuli is an artificial literary language popularized by the poet Vidyapati. His Brajabuli lyrics about the love which were turned out to be for Radha Krishna later on these are considered his best work. Other poets emulated his writing, and the language became established in the 16th century. Among the medieval Odia poets who wrote in Brajabuli are , , , , , , and . Brajabuli is basically Maithili (as prevalent during the medieval period), but its forms are modified to look like Bengali.