A Short Biography of Bhanubhakta Acharya

Bhanubhakta Acharya a great Nepali poet, writer and a translator was born in 1814 in Tanahu Nepal. His father Dhanjaya Acharya was a government worker and his grandfather Shree Krishna Acharya was awell-known priest at that time.Bhanubhakta Acharya got his early education at home with his father and later he went to Banaras for further study. "Bhanubhakte Ramayana" is his master pice.

         Bhanubhakta Acharya is honored as a Adhikabi of Nepal although there were many famous writer at that time.He was born in Ramgha village of Tanahu Nepal in a wealthy and  high class Bramin family. Acharya is the first person to translate Ramayana from Snskrit to Nepali. 
          One day when he met the grass cutter then only, he realized the importance of social work then he commits himself to do something. That grass cutter works hard to make a water-well by selling the grass because of his poverty but Acharya was rich .He wouldn’t had to cut grass to make a water-well or so on.

         He is considered one of the great poet in Nepal in modern time too but he didn’t know anything in his life time. His writing was unpublished in his life time. later Motiram Bhatta who found his writing and published then only Bhanubhakta became Adhikabi Bhanubhakta. 
   He didn't receive any western education and didn't read any western books too so we can find the strong test of nationality in his writing.

           His one incident in his friend Gajadhar’s home is also interestingfor the readers .He had written a poem about his freind's mother who didn't let him to stay a night as he was evening guest. He used to reply everything in poetry. He died in an early age in 1868.He died but he has not yet died from the heart of Nepalese people.