Kavi Bhushan
{{Short description|Indian poet}}
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Kavi Bhushan (c. 1613–1715) {{cite book |author=Sujit Mukherjee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC&pg=PA54 |title=Dictionary of Indian Literature One: Beginnings - 1850 |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-1453-9 |page=54 |accessdate=9 December 2012}}was an Indian poet in the courts of the Bundeli king Chhatrasal{{cite book |author=K. K. Kusuman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4JqgSUSXDsC&pg=PA157 |title=A Panorama of Indian Culture: Professor A. Sreedhara Menon Felicitation Volume |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1990 |isbn=978-81-7099-214-1 |page=157 |accessdate=10 December 2012}} and the Maratha king Shivaji I. He mainly wrote in Brajbhasha interspersed with words from Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian languages. He was a scholar poet of Anurag and Shlesh Alankar.
Early life
Bhushan originally resided in the Tikwapur village in present-day Ghatampur tehsil, Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh in a Kanyakubja Brahmin Family.{{cite book |title=People's Raj |volume=30 |date=1974 |publisher=Directorate-General of Information and Public Relations.|page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-AkzVA0tUUC&q=kaviraj+bhushan+kanyakubja|language=en}} He was the brother of the poets Chintamani and Matiram. Bhushan's original name is unknown. Kavi Bhushan ("Precious Poet") was a title given to him by the Rudra Pratap of Chitrakoot.{{cite book |author=Sujit Mukherjee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC&pg=PA54 |title=Dictionary of Indian Literature One: Beginnings - 1850 |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=978-81-250-1453-9 |page=54 |accessdate=9 December 2012}}
He first met Shivaji I when the latter visited Agra to meet the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb; thereafter, Bhushan was supported by Shivaji I. Bhushan later moved from Varanasi to Maratha Kingdom in the 1670s, and attended Shivaji's durbar (court) in Pune.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Use of Puns
Kavi Bhushan was known for the use of puns in his poetry.{{cn|date=September 2024}}{{or|date=September 2024}}
Literary works
- Shivaa Bhushan
- Shivabavani
- Chatrashaal Dashak
- Saaransh ki khani
References
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External links
- [http://www.shivchhatrapati.com/sources.php?type=poems&id=kavi_bhushan Poems of Kavi Bhusan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224211/http://www.shivchhatrapati.com/sources.php?type=poems&id=kavi_bhushan |date=3 March 2016 }}
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Category:17th-century Indian poets
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Category:Poets from Uttar Pradesh
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