Krittibas Ojha
Mahakavi Krittibas OjhaIndian epic Rāmāyaṇa in Bengali. His work, the Śrīrām Pā̃cālī,[1] is popularly known as the Krittivasi Ramayan. His work, edited by Jaygopal Tarkalankar, was published by the Serampore Mission Press.[1]
Life
Krittibas Ojha was born in a Brahmin family at Phulia village of modern-day Nadia district in the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal).[2] He was the eldest among his father Banamali Ojha's six sons and one daughter.
The word "Krittibas" is an epithet of Hindu god
Sanskritised Bengali).[3] Kritibas Ojha himself later transcipted the Sadhu Bhasha or Sanskritised Bengali version of Valmiki Ramayana epic in Chalit Bhasha or Simple Bengali version. later on in the 1930s Kazi Nazrul Islam
transcipted Sadhu bhasha or Sanskritised Bengali version of Mahabharata epic in Chalit bhasha or Simple Bengali version.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7066-966-1.
- ^ Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1895). The Literature of Bengal. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co. p. 48.
- ISBN 81-7201-107-5.
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