Chandidas

Chandidas (born 1408) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval poet of Bengal.

Over 1250 poems related to the love of Radha and Krishna in Bengali with the bhanita of Chandidas are found with three different sobriquets along with his name, Baḍu, Dvija and Dina, as well as without any sobriquet also.

It is not clear whether these bhanitas actually refer to the same person or not.

It is assumed by some modern scholars that the poems that are current in the name of Chandidas are actually the works of at least four different Chandidas, who are distinguished from each other by their sobriquets found in the bhanitas.

It is also assumed that the earliest of them was Ananta Baḍu Chandidas, who has been more or less identified as a historical figure born in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century in Birbhum district of the present-day West Bengal state and wrote the lyrical Srikrishna Kirtan (Songs in praise of Krishna).

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