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{{Short description|Indian sanskrit poet}}
[[File:Unending Passion The Ratipriya Heroine.jpg|thumb|''Unending Passion: The Ratipriya Heroine'', Folio from the ''Rasamānjari'' series attributed to [[Kripal of Nurpur]]. [[Nurpur kingdom|Nurpur]], c. 1660-1670. [[Dogra Art Museum, Jammu|Dogra Art Museum]]]]
'''Bhanudatta Misra''' was a [[Sanskrit]] [[poet]] from the [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] region of India who has been dated to some time in the late 15th and early 16th century.<ref name=Pollock2009>{{cite book |last1=Pollock |first1=Sheldon |title="Bouquet of Rasa" & "River of Rasa" |date=2009 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9780814767559 |pages=xx-xxi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqYUCgAAQBAJ&dq=Bh%C4%81nudatta+Mi%C5%9Bra+mithila&pg=PR42}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Saṅgīt |first1=Mahābhāratī |title=Bhānudatta Misra |journal=The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-19-565098-3 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195650983.001.0001/acref-9780195650983-e-0753?rskey=LjMcUD&result=1}}</ref>

Bhanudatta's works started to gain popularity, particularly in the early modern period when his compositions, the ''Rasamānjari'' and the ''Rasatarangini'' received numerous commentaries especially up till the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tripathi |first1=Ramasuresa |title=Rasa-mañjarī of Bhānudatta: with two unpublished commentaries Parimala of Śeṣa-Cintāmaṇi & Rasāmoda of Trivikrama Miśra |date=1981 |publisher=Viveka Publications |page=42}}</ref> As per [[Sheldon Pollock]]; "no other Sanskrit poet exercised anything remotely approaching Bhanudatta's influence on the development of the Hindi literary tradition between 1600 and 1850.".<ref name= Pollock2009 />
==Life==
As per Bhanudatta himself, he was born in the country of [[Videha]] corresponding to the [[Mithila (region)|Mithila region]] of modern-day North [[Bihar]] in India and belonged to the [[Maithil Brahmin]] community. He also states that his father was a poet named Ganeshvara. Speaking of his background in the [[Third persona|third person]], he states:<ref name= Pollock2009 />

{{quote|''His father was Ganéshvara,''
''brightest jewel in the crown of poetry,''
''his land, Videha country,''

''where waves of the holy river ripple.''
|author=|title=|source=}}

Other than this, Bhanudatta gives very little information about his life from his works which was typical of Sanskrit poets of the period. Many poets would also travel vast distances to secure royal patronage and many of Bhanudattas works were likely composed under the patronage of a [[Muslim]] rule in [[Devagiri]] in modern-day [[Maharashtra]] whom Bhanudatta refers to as a "King Nijama".<ref name= Pollock2009 /> [[Sheldon Pollock]] has connected this "Nijama" with [[Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I]] of the [[Ahmadnagar Sultanate]]. The outcome of this was that Bhanudatta's works continued to be deeply studied in the [[Deccan]] region and in other neighbouring sultanates like that of [[Golconda Sultanate|Golconda]].<ref name= Pollock2009 />

==Influence==
Bhanudatta's works made an impact on the emergent [[Indian painting|painting tradition]] of early modern [[India]].<ref name= Pollock2009 />
The Bouquet of Rasa was well received within the field of [[Mughal painting|miniature paintings]] and was illustrated possibly as early as the 1600s in the region of [[Mewar]]. His poems have also been depicted in miniature paintings from the [[Deccan]], [[Chamba State|Chamba]] and [[Nurpur kingdom|Nurpur]].<ref name= Pollock2009 />

==Works==
The attributed works of Bhanudatta Misra are:<ref name= Pollock2009 />

* ''Alankaratilaka'' (Forehead Ornament of Figures)
* ''Gitagauripatikavya''
* ''Kumarabhargaviyacampu''
* ''Rasamānjari'' (Bouquet of Rasa)
* ''Rasatarangini'' (Rivers of Rasa)

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Writers of Mithila]]
[[Category:Hindu poets]]
[[Category:15th-century Indian poets]]

Bhanudatta Misra - Revision history

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