Motiram Bhatta

Motiram Bhatta was born on 8 September 1866 in Kathmandu, the second son of the pandit Daya Ram Bhatta and Ripumardini Devi. As a child he left for Benares, where he learned Persian and Urdu and took up the sitar. Back in Kathmandu at about the age of fifteen, he married there, then returned to India to study. He brought the ghazal into Nepali poetry and founded, around 1888, one of the country's first private printing presses. He died in 1896, at the age of thirty, on the very day of his birth according to the lunar calendar.

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• Essayकवि भानुभक्तको जीवनचरित्रMotiram Bhatta · 1891not translated into EnglishLiterature