Kaviraja Bankidas Ashiya

Bankidas Asiya
portrait of Kaviraja Bankidas Asiya
Kaviraja Bankidas Asiya, Rajkavi of Marwar
Born1771
Bhandiyawas, Barmer, Rajasthan
Died1833
NationalityIndian
Known forRajasthani Literature and History
Notable workBankidas Ri Khyat
Bankidas Granthavali
Websitehttps://www.charans.org/bankidas-asia/

Kaviraja Bankidas Ashiya (1771–1833) was a Rajasthani poet, warrior and scholar. He was born in a Charan family of Ashiya lineage in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan.

He was born in 1771 (1828 Vikram Samvat). He has composed between 1803 and 1833. He wrote several religious poems, didactic poems and also on the then situation of the society.