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ABSTRACT In India very little work has been done in the area of place names research. However there are some useful works done by scholar like H.D sankalia , D.C Sircar, S.J. mangalam, S.K. Chatterji, A.K Chhudhury, B.D Chattopadhya, and other have traced the different cultural aspect of different states in India . No attempt has been made by the scholars to make an exclusive study on Granthabali place names in Odisha and India so far. In the present work, sincere attempts have been made to analyse the place names found in the Granthabali with the help of Sanskrit English Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Britannica and Purnachandra Odia Bhsakosha to find actual meaning of place names. Moreover place names collected from the Granthabali are divided here on the basis of suffixes and prefixes. It may be significant that the place names mentioned by Kabi Gangadhar in his works reveals on the cultural, religious, social and natural aspect of the region. They may provide insight into cultural, linguistic, historical habits and spatial, environmental perception.