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Celebrating 200th Birth Anniversary of Bhanu Bhakta
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 13, 2013: some Nepalis are celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of Bhanu Bhakta with pomp in Kathmandu and elsewhere in Nepal, and India, too today. The Interim Election Council of Ministers has given a large sum of money to celebrate the birth anniversary of Bhanu Bhakta.
Bhanu is recognized as the initial poet of the ‘Khas’ language currently known as Nepali. He has written ‘Ramayana’ in the ’khas’ language based on the ‘Ramayana’ written in Sanskrit. If anybody has a chance to read the ‘Ramayana’ written by Bhanu then s/he will find how rough the ‘khas’ language was at that time.
Bhanu also has written ‘Badhu sikchaa’ means lessons to daughter-in-law. As a poet he should have taken the side of the suffering daughter-in-law but he took the side of the winning mother-in-law, and try to repress the voices of the suppressed daughter-in-law. Bhanu happened to be at the home for an overnight stay. The verbal fight between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law at the night had led him to write the ‘Badhu sikchaa’.
Bhanu held a state employment. Then the tyrannical Rana rulers put him behind bars for a trivial matter. He had spent many days and weeks in jail without having any ruling on whether he would continue to stay on jail or would get freedom. So, he wrote a poem stating, “Always saying tomorrow, my household has been in jeopardy, give a relief to be an ascetic”. Soon after, he got released from the jail.
Bhanu is known not only in Nepal but also in other Nepalese-speaking world such as Darjeeling, Sikkim and so on in India.
