• DR. RAJIV KUMAR

Vidyapati was in the family of Maithila Brahmanas of kasyapa Gotra of Garh Bishaphi. An inscription of one of his ancestors, Karmaditya, on a temple of Haihatta Devi at Habidih, is dated in La. Sam. 213. He was a minister. His son Devaditya was a minister of peace and war and his seven sons were decorated with royal titles. Devaditya’s eldest son, Vireshwara, compiled the paddhati of the most important Samskaras of the Samvedic Brahmanas of Mithila and his nephew, Ramadatta, that of the Yajurvedics. Ramadatta’s father, Ganeshwara, was the Mahasamantadhipati (Lord of the feudatories). Dhireshwara, great grandfather of Vidyapati, was a famous Nibandhakara. Vireshwara’s son, Chandeshwar wrote his comprehensive compendium of Hindu law in seven books called Ratnakaras. The Paddhatis of Vireshwara and Ramadatta are followed in Mithila even to-day and the Nibandhas of chandeshwar still from the basis of the social and religious life of Mithila. It may be noted that so many of them were members of the family of our poet. Vidyapati was the son of Ganapati Thakur and grandson of Jayadatta. He was born at Bishaphi in the second half of the fourteenth century A. D. It is not possible to suggest any exact date in the present state of our knowledge.

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"Vidyapati : A Great Devotional Poet", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.127-133, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907O21.pdf

"Vidyapati : A Great Devotional Poet", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp127-133, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907O21.pdf