Durgabar Kayastha (1515–1560) was litterateur from Kamakhya, Kamrup.
He was well known Manasa poet as well as an expert oja of 16th century.
The ballads connected with this story been current in western Kamarupa and the rest of north Bengal long before the verses were reduced to writing by Sukavi Narayan in the thirteenth century and by Durgabar in the early part of the sixteenth century.
Durgabar Kayastha rendered Madhava Kandali's Ramayana into lyrics and made new ones of his own, both totalling fiftyeight; and these songs were put to different classical ragas.
Durgabar Kayastha composed the Ramayana in the lyrical style of composition to be sung by the Oja Pali.