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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 wrote Kabi Bhanubhakta Ko Jivan Charitra— the biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya, which played a significant role in establishing Acharya as the first poet (Aadi Kabi) of Nepali language. [7] He is considered one of the seventeen national heroes (Rastriya Bibhuti) of Nepal and was given the title Yuba Kabi (Young Poet). [8]
Bhanubhakta Acharya was born on 13 July 1814 (29 Ashadh 1871 BS) in the village of Chundi Ramgha, Tanahun District, Nepal. [2] Acharya set out to translate the Valmiki Ramayana in the Nepali language, which is widely considered to be the first Nepali epic. [3] Due to this, the author, Bhanubhakta Acharya is known as Adikavi (first poet) in ...
Bhanubhakta Ramayana (Nepali: भानुभक्त रामायण), commonly known as Ramayan, is the Nepali translation of Valmiki Ramayana by Adikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya. [1] It was posthumously published in its complete form in 1887. It is widely considered to be the first Nepali epic.
The organisation holds various conferences and literary meetings occasionally. The organisation also organises Bhanu Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Bhanubhakta Acharya, on 13 July every year in Darjeeling with huge fervour. [4] The organisation installed a bust of Bhanubhakta on 17 June 1949 in the main square of Darjeeling.
Before Bhanubhakta, writing was done in Sanskrit, and because it was a language accessible exclusively to high-caste Brahmins at the time, common Nepali people were not involved in literature. A few scholars have argued that poet Suwananda Daas was the first literary figure in the history of modern Nepal .
Pandit Kaviraj Nara Nath Acharya (1906–1988) was a Nepalese Pandit (Sanskrit Scholar), Kaviraj (Ayurvedic physician) and writer in Sanskrit and Nepali. [1] He is best known for his biography of his great uncle, the poet Bhanubhakta Acharya, first published in 1960.
Statue of poet Bhanubhakta Acharya Poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota Poet Siddhicharan Shrestha Poet Krishna Bhusan Bal Poet, translator, playwright and artist Suman Pokhrel Poet, lyricist and literary critic Geeta Tripathee A black and white photo of Poet Kul Bahadur KC