Vidyapati

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medieval poet person poet scholar

Vidyapati was a renowned medieval poet and scholar from the Mithila region, celebrated for his Maithili and Sanskrit devotional and love poetry.

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विद्यापति	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	medieval poet ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
associatedWith	Maithili literary tradition ⓘ Mithila court culture ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
culturalRegion	Mithila region ⓘ surface form: Tirhut (historic Mithila area)
ethnicGroup	Kumaoni ⓘ surface form: Maithil
fieldOfWork	court scholarship ⓘ poetry ⓘ religious literature ⓘ
floruitCentury	14th century ⓘ 15th century ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	devotional poetry ⓘ love poetry ⓘ
honorific	Maithil Kavi Kokil ⓘ
influenced	Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Vaishnava tradition ⓘ early Bengali Vaishnava poets ⓘ later Maithili poets ⓘ
knownFor	Maithili love lyrics ⓘ Vaishnava devotional songs ⓘ influence on later Bengali and Maithili literature ⓘ
language	Maithili ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ
legacy	considered one of the earliest major poets in Maithili ⓘ helped establish Maithili as a literary language ⓘ songs still sung in Mithila and Vaishnava traditions ⓘ
literaryStyle	intense devotion to Krishna and Radha ⓘ sensuous depiction of love ⓘ
movement	Bhakti movement ⓘ
nameInDevanagari	Vidyapati self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: विद्यापति
notableWork	Bhagavat Paricaya ⓘ Padavali (Maithili love and devotional songs) ⓘ Shaiva stotras (Sanskrit hymns to Shiva) ⓘ
notableWorkLanguage	Maithili ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ
occupation	poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
region	Mithila region ⓘ surface form: Mithila
religion	Hinduism ⓘ
wroteAbout	Bhakti (devotion) ⓘ Radha-Krishna love ⓘ Shaiva themes ⓘ

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Vidyapati → nameInDevanagari → Vidyapati self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: विद्यापति

Maithili → notableAuthor → Vidyapati ⓘ