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Vidyapati (c. 1352 – 1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier and royal priest.
वह गणपति ठाकुर के पुत्र थे, एक मैथिल ब्राह्मण जिसे शिव का बहुत बड़ा भक्त कहा जाता है। वह तिरहुत के शासक राजा गणेश्वर के दरबार में एक पुरोहित थें। उनके परदादा देवादित्य ठाकुर सहित उनके कई निकट पूर्वज अपने आप में उल्लेखनीय थे, जो हरिसिंह देव के दरबार में युद्ध और शान्ति मंत्री थे।.
May 6, 2024 · Vidyapati (born c. 1352, Bisapi, Madhubani, Bihar province [now in north-central Bihar state, northeastern India]—died 1448, Bisapi) was a Maithili Brahman writer and poet, known for his many erudite Sanskrit works and also for his erotic poetry written in the Maithili language.
Vidyapati was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit scholar from the Mithila region, now in India and Nepal. He is renowned for his exquisite love poetry, which had a profound impact on the literary and cultural landscape of his time and continues to resonate with readers today.
The poet Vidyapati appears to have been born in or around 1352 in Bihar, in the Madhubani village of Bisapi in the region of north eastern Bihar known as Mithila. As a Brahmin, he is likely to have learned Sanskrit at an early age, and certainly his earliest compositions suggest his mastery of the language.
Vidyapati is as much known for his love-lyrics as for his poetries dedicated to Lord Shiva and also love songs about Sri Krisha and Radha. He used to compose in Maithili, a language spoken around Mithila (a region in the north Bihar), closely related to the abahattha form of early Bengali.
Nov 14, 2016 · Courtier, scholar, and prose-writer, Vidyapati, though a Bengali poet, is primarily known for his love-lyrics composed in Maithili, a language spoken in the towns and villages of Mithila.
Jan 22, 2021 · Full name of Vidyapati Ji, is Vidyapati Thakur, born in the 1352, Bisfi, Madhubani, which is part of Mithila region of India (north-central state of Bihar, India). He died in 1448, in Bisfi.
Vidyapati was a polyglot poet and scholar, attached at different moments to courts of different chieftaincies of north Bihar and the terrain of Nepal. The chapter introduces his scholarly profile and provides the details of all his known compositions. The diversity of their themes, genres and languages is marked.
Aug 28, 2020 · Vidyapati is known as ‘Mahakavi’—the greatest poet—in Maithili literature, and is accorded high honour and respect in both the countries, Nepal and India. After hundred years of his death, a book named Vidyapati Padawali was published.
