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'''Jagannath Prasad Bhanu''' ({{lang-hi|जगन्नाथ प्रसाद भानु}}, 8 August 1859 – 25 October 1945)<ref name="rahulsingh"/> was a [[Hindi]] scholar of poetry and prose.<ref name="hoil1">{{cite book | first=Sisir Kumar | last=Das | year=1991 |page=760 | title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy | location=New Delhi, India | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | isbn=9788172017989 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA760 | accessdate=August 11, 2016}}</ref> He is recognized as a pioneering scholar of aesthetics in Hindi.<ref name="hkpss">{{cite book | first=Sushil | last=Trivedi | year=2012 | title=हिन्दी के प्रथम साहित्य शास्त्री: जगन्नाथ प्रसाद भानु | location=New Delhi, India | publisher=Yash Publications | isbn=9788192081564 | language=Hindi |trans-title=Jagannath Prasad Bhanu, the first scholar of aesthetics in Hindi}}</ref> His best known work was ''Chandaḥprabhākara'', a work of Hindi prose, published in nine editions during his life.<ref name="rahulsingh"/><ref name="hoil2"/>

==Life==
Jagannath Prasad Bhanu was born on 8 August 1859 at [[Nagpur]], the capital of then [[Central Provinces]].<ref name="rahulsingh">{{cite news | first=Rahul | last=Singh | date=12 January 2012 | page=4 | title=भानु कवि |trans-title=The poet known as Bhanu | location=Bilaspur | publisher=Dainik Haribhumi | language=Hindi}}</ref> He spent most of his life in [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]] in modern-day [[Chhattisgarh]].<ref name="rahulsingh"/> He was a scholar of [[Hindi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Prakrit]], [[English language|English]], [[Urdu]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Odia language|Odia]] and [[Marathi language|Marathi]].<ref name="rahulsingh"/> He was especially interested in linguistics and mathematics.<ref name="rahulsingh"/>

In 1940, Bhanu received the title ''Mahamahopadhyaya''.<ref name="rahulsingh"/> He died in 1945.<ref name="rahulsingh"/><ref name="hoil1"/>

==Major works==
* ''Chandaḥprabhākara'' (1894): A Hindi prose work.<ref name="hoil2">{{cite book | first=Sisir Kumar | last=Das | year=2000 |pages=672, 760 | title=History of Indian Literature, Volume 1 | location=New Delhi, India | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | isbn=9788172010065 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA760 | accessdate=April 16, 2012}}</ref> This popular work saw many editions during his lifetime, and was published in its ninth edition in 1939.<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Navapañcāmṛta Rāmāyaṇa'' (1897): This is a work based on the [[Ramcharitmanas]].<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Kāvyaprabhākara'' (1909): A work on poetics in Hindi.<ref name="hoil2"/>
* ''Chanda Sārāvalī'' (1917).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Alaṅkāra Praśnottarī'' (1918).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Hindī Kāvyālaṅkāra'' (1918).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Kāvya Prabandha'' (1918).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Kāvya Kusumāñjali'' (1920).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Nāyikā Bheda Śaṅkāvalī'' (1925).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Rasaratnākara'' (1927): A work on aesthetics in Hindi.<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Śrī Tulasī Tatva Prakāśa'' (1931).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Rāmāyaṇa Varṇāvalī'' (1936).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Alaṅkāra Darpaṇa'' (1936).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>
* ''Śrī Tulasī Bhāva Prakāśa'' (1937).<ref name="rahulsingh"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/Chhanda-Prabhakar Ninth edition of ''Chandaḥprabhākara'' (1939)]

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