Chandidas, 1417-1477

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Name (Latin)
Chandidas, 1417-1477
Other forms of name
Candidasa, 1417-1477
Chandidas
Chandidasa
Date of birth
1417
Date of death
1477
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 119370512
Wikidata: Q2659595
Library of congress: n 89215260
Sources of Information
  • Chandidas, 1941:
  • New Delhi MARC file, 10/11/96
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Wikipedia description:

Chandidas (1339–1399, Bengali: চণ্ডীদাস) was a medieval Bengali poet from India, or possibly more than one. He wrote over 1250 poems related to the love of Radha and Krishna in medieval Bengali. The poems of Chandidas with bhanita are found with three different sobriquets along with his name, Baḍu, Dvija and Dina as well as without any sobriquet also. It is not clear whether these bhanitas actually refer to the same person or not. It is assumed by some modern scholars that the poems which are current in the name of Chandidas are actually the works of at least four different Chandidas, who are distinguished from each other by their sobriquets found in the bhanitas. It is also assumed that the earliest of them was Ananta Baḍu Chandidas. His father Durgadas Bagchi, was a Bengali Brahmin of Varendra clan. Baḍu Chandidas has been more or less identified as a historical figure, born in the 14th century in a Bengali Brahmin family of a small Tehsil city named Nanoor in Birbhum district of the present-day West Bengal state and wrote the lyrical Srikrishna Kirtan (Songs in praise of Krishna).

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