Biography of bhanubhakta acharya poet
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Bhanubhakta Acharya
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1814 - 1868
Bhanubhakta Acharya
Bhanubhakta Acharya (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) (1814—1868 CE) (1871—1925 BS) was a Nepali writer, poet, and translator. He is widely regarded as the oldest poet in the Nepali language, for which he was conferred with the title of "Aadikabi": literally, "the first poet". He is best known for translating the epic Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali for the first time. Read more on Wikipedia
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Aadikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) (1814–1868) was a Nepali poet who translated the Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali. He was born in 1814 A.D (1871 B.S) in Chundi Ramgha, Tanahu District, and was educated at home bygd his grandfather, Shri Krishna Acharya. His father Dhananjaya Acharya was a government official who worked for General Amar Singh Thapa, Governor of Palpa in western Nepal. He was one of the greatest poets in history of Nepal. Bhanubhakta Acharya died in 1868 (1925 B.S). His main occupation was a poet
Nepalese people cannot forget the day Ashar 29, “Bhanujayanti”(July 13), the birthday of Bhanubhakta Acharya, who fryst vatten also more popularly known as “Nepalka Adikavi”(Nepal’s original poet).
“Adikavi” in reference to Bhannubhakta had first been used bygd Motiram Bhatta. While writing a biography of Bhanubhakta in 1981, Motiram described him as Adikavi, not because he was the first poet in Nepali. A
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Motiram Bhatta, poet and the first biographer of Bhanubhakta Acharya, coined the term aadikavi (meaning the first poet) for Bhanubhakta Acharya in B.S.1948 but it wasn’t used in practice. It was only in B.S.1997, after Juddha Shumsher Rana gave orders that Bhanubhakta could be addressed as aadikavi that Bhanubhakta became aadikavi for the common man.
Surya Bikram Gyawali continued to work on the incomplete works on Bhanubhakta begun by Motiram Bhatta after his early demise. The following individuals Vishnumayadevi (Acharya), Baburam Acharya, BalkrishnaSama, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Surya BikramGyawali, Dharanidhar Koirala, Parasmani Pradhan, Shambhu Prasad Dhungyal, Balchandra Sharma, Brahma Shumsher, Bhaichandra Pradhan, Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan, Indra Bahadur Rai, Naranath Acharya, Muktinath Acharya, Sharvaraj Acharya, Shivaraj Acharya Koudinnyayan, Vrataraj Acharya, Giriraj Acharya, Narayandutta Shastri, Balchandra Sharma, Shribhadra Sharma, Junanath Sharma, Suman Dhakal, Ra