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Adikavi-Bhanubhakta Acharya

by Rajan Neupane

Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814–1868), reverently known as “Adikavi” (The First Poet), is credited with being the founding father of Nepali poetry. He was the first poet to write in the Nepali language in a structured literary form, elevating Nepali from a spoken vernacular to a written literary medium. His Nepali translation of the Sanskrit Ramayana made

Bhanubhakta Acharya

by Rajan Neupane

Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814–1868) is widely regarded as the Aadikavi, or the First Poet of Nepal, not because he was the first person to write poetry in Nepal, but because he was the first to write creative and literary works in the Nepali language. He is best remembered for translating the epic Ramayana from Sanskrit to