Bihari Lal Chaube | |
|---|---|
 'The Poet Bihari Offers Homage to Radha and Krishna', attributed to Nainsukh, ca.1760–65 | |
| Born | 1595 Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Died | 1663 Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Period | Riti Kaal |
| Literary movement | Ritikaal |
Bihari Lal Chaube or Bihārī (1595–1663)[1] was a Hindi poet, who is famous for writing the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished from narrative and simpler styles.[2] Today it is considered the most well known book of the Ritikavya Kaal or 'Riti Kaal'(an era in which poets wrote poems for kings) [3] of Hindi literature.[4]
The language is the form of Hindi called Brajbhasha, spoken in the country about Mathura, where the poet lived. The couplets are inspired by the Krishna side of Vishnu-worship, and the majority of them take the shape of amorous utterances of Radha, the chief of the Gopis or cowherd maidens of Braj, and her divine lover, the son of Vasudeva. Each couplet is independent and complete in itself. The distichs, in their collected form, are arranged, not in any sequence of narrative or dialogue, but according to the technical classification of the sentiments which they convey as set forth in the treatises on Indian rhetoric.[2]
- ^ Kangra Paintings of the Bihari Sat Sai National Museum, New Delhi, 1966.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lyall, Charles James (1911). "Bihārī-Lāl". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 927.
- ^ RitiKavya Kaal
- ^ Google notebook Hindi literature.
