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Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ, [a]; also called Śrīrām Pãcālī, [b] composed by the fourteenth-century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, [1] [2] from whom it takes its name, is a rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa into Bengali. Written in the traditional Rāmāyaṇa Pā̃cālī form of Middle Bengali literature, the Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ is not ...
Vālmīki-Pratibhā (Bengali: বাল্মীকি-প্রতিভা, Balmiki Protibha, lit. The Genius of Vālmīki) is an opera by Rabindranath Tagore.The Bengali libretto was written by Tagore himself based on the legend of Ratnakara the Thug who later became Sage Valmiki and composed Ramayana, a Hindu epic.
Krittibas Ojha was born in a Bengali Brahmin family at Phulia village of modern-day Nadia district in the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal). [3] He was the eldest among his father Banamali Ojha's six sons and one daughter. The word "Krittibas" is an epithet of Hindu god Shiva.
Shyama Sangeet (Bengali: শ্যামা সঙ্গীত) is a genre of Bengali devotional songs dedicated to the Hindu goddess Shyama or Kali which is a form of supreme universal mother-goddess Durga or parvati. It is also known as Shaktagiti or Durgastuti.
Maharashtra – The Marathi Bhavartha Ramayana written by Sant Eknath in the 16th century. There is also a reference of a Ramayana being translated into old Marathi during the 12th or 13th century. Odisha – The Jagamohana Ramayana or Dandi Ramayana composed by Balarama Dasa in early 16th century is the prevalent version in Odisha. [25]
History of Bengali Language and Literature (1911) Sati (1916) The Vaishnava Literature of Medieval Bengal (1917) Chaitanya and His Companions (1917) The Folk Literature of Bengal (1920) The Bengali Ramayana (1920) Bengali Prose Style, 1800-1857 (1921) Chaitanya and His Age (1922) Eastern Bengal Ballads in four volumes (1923–1932) Glimpses of ...
Vidyapati developed a close friendship with Devasimha's heir apparent Sivasimha and started focusing on love songs. [9] He wrote some five hundred love songs, primarily between 1380 and 1406. [9] The songs he composed after that period were devotional praises of Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, and Ganga. [9]
[3] [5] He is revered as Ādi Kavi, the first poet, author of Ramayana, the first epic poem. The Ramayana, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 shlokas and seven cantos (kaṇḍas). [6] The Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the Mahabharata or about four times the length ...