As well as the three books for which he is best known - "Mahabharata", "Vilanka Ramayana" and "Chandi Purana" - Sarala Dasa also wrote the book "Laxmi Narayana Vachanika". The "Adi Parva Mahabharata" opens with a long invocation addressed to the Lord Jagannatha of Puri, from which it is known that Sarala Dasa started writing his "Mahabharata" in the reign of Kapileswar, otherwise known as Kapilendra Deva, the famous Gajapati king of Odisha (AD 1435–67). He tells us that Maharaja Kapilesvara with innumerable offerings and many a salute was serving this great deity and hereby destroying the sins of the Kali age.