The Poet Bihari Offers Homage to Radha and Krishna
Bihari (1595-1664) was a hindi poet, who is famous for writing Satasai (Seven Hundred Verses). Bihari wrote poetry in shringar ras depicting the divine love of Krishna and Radha. One of the famous doha (couplet) written by Bihari is Image File history File links The Poet Bihari Offers Homage to Radha and Krishna Opening page of the Satasai (Seven Hundred) of Bihari c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Lord Krishna (à¤à¥à¤·à¥à¤£ in Devanagari, IAST ) is according to common Hindu tradition the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ... Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ... Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ... Hindi (हिनà¥à¤¦à¥ hind), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and Western India, is one of the national languages of India. ... Lord Krishna (à¤à¥à¤·à¥à¤£ in Devanagari, IAST ) is according to common Hindu tradition the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Satsaiya ke dohre jyun naavik ke teer Dekhan men chote lage ghaav kare ghambir.
The rough translation is: The poet Satsaya couplet's are like the arrows of sailor. Looks small in size but causes serious injury.
Bibliography
The Satasai, Penguin Books, 1992. (ISBN 0140445765) Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ...
BIHARI (properly Bihari), the name of the most western of the four forms of speech which comprise the Eastern Group of modern Indo-Aryan Languages.
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.
As the couplets are independent one of another, and were put together fortuitously as composed, many different recensions exist; but the standard is that settled by an assembly of poets under the direction of Prince A`zam Shah, the third son of the emperor Aurangzeb (16J3-1707), and hence called the A`zam-shahi; it comprises 726 couplets.
On the other hand, a witness as to the former pronunciation of the letter is present in the fact that, in the Kaithi character, s is always written s.
We have seen that the change of s to s occurs in Bengali but not in Bihari, and have given reasons for the change back to s in the latter language, although the Mg.
Bihari Literature.In all three dialects there are numerous folk-epics transmitted by word of mouth.