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Bhanubhakta Acharya

1814 - 1868

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Bhanubhakta Acharya (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) (1814—1868 CE) (1871—1925 BS) was a Nepali writer, poet, and translator. He is widely regarded as the oldest poet in the Nepali language, for which he was conferred with the title of "Aadikabi": literally, "the first poet". He is best known for translating the epic Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali for the first time. Initially, his translation of the Ramayana was popular in oral form. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bhanubhakta Acharya is the 2,598th most popular writer (down from 1,764th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 13th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Nepalese Writer.

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Among writers, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 2,598 out of 7,302. Before him are Giovanni de' Bardi, Sophie de Condorcet, Jung Chang, Sophie Kinsella, Alice B. Toklas, and Palaephatus. After him are Timotheus of Miletus, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, André Salmon, Isaac Casaubon, Jorge Guillén, and Cornelia Funke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 41. Before him are Rafael Carrera, Ivan Mažuranić, Charles Mackay, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Henri Tresca, and Gustav Hartlaub. After him are Jules Simon, Daniel Kirkwood, Miklós Ybl, John Hughes, Pierre Wantzel, and Hervé Faye. Among people deceased in 1868, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 30. Before him are Ferenc Gyulay, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Nakano Takeko, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, and Venancio Flores. After him are Carlo Matteucci, Emanuel Leutze, Peter Julian Eymard, Kit Carson, Wilhelm Griesinger, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 25 out of 59. Before him are Ram Baran Yadav (1948), Anuruddha (-450), Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah (1875), Madhav Kumar Nepal (1953), Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980), and Suman Pokhrel (1967). After him are Ang Rita (1948), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), Janaka (null), Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909), and Araniko (1244).

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Among WRITERS In Nepal

Among writers born in Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya ranks 3. Before him are Sanu Sharma (null), and Suman Pokhrel (1967). After him are Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909).

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