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,[2] philosopher,[3] law-theorist,[4] writer, courtier and royal priest.[5] He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs.[6] He had knowledge of, and composed works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and Maithili.[6][7]
Vidyapati's influence was not just restricted to Maithili and Sanskrit literature but also extended to other Eastern Indian literary traditions.[5]
The language at the time of Vidyapati, the prakrit-derived late Abahattha, had just begun to transition into early versions of the Eastern language such as Maithili. Thus, Vidyapati's influence on making these languages has been described as "analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England".[8]
^ abVidyapati at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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^Jha, Pankaj (2019), "Vidyapati and Mithila", A Political History of Literature, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 3–36, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199489558.003.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-948955-8, retrieved 17 March 2022
^ abPankaj Jha (20 November 2018). A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century. OUP India. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-19-909535-3.
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^Kumar, Arun (2018). Grierson : Bhasha Aur Sahitya Chintan (in Hindi). Vani Prakashan. ISBN 978-93-87889-33-0.
^Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish (1915). Vidyāpati: Bangīya Padābali; Songs of the Love of Rādhā and Krishna. London: The Old Bourne Press.
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