Nagarjun
| Nagarjun | |
|---|---|
.jpg) |
|
| Born |
Vaidya Nath Mishra 30 June 1911 Satlakha Village, Madhubani District, Bihar |
| Died | 5 November 1998 (aged 87) Khwaja Sarai, Darbhanga district, Bihar |
| Other names | Yatri |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, essayist, novelist |
| Years active | 1930–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Aparajita Devi |
| Awards | 1969:Sahitya Akademi Award 1994: Sahitya Akademi Fellowship |
Nagarjun (Yatri, Baba Nagarjun, Vaidya Nath Mishra) (30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998) was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet.
Baba Nagarjun was Born as Vaidya Nath Mishra, in 1911, in the village of Satlakha in Madhubani District of Bihar, India, which was his mother's village, his original village is Tarauni in Darbhanga district, Bihar. He later converted to Buddhism and got the name Nagarjun. His mother died when he was only three, and his father being a vagabond himself, couldn't support him so young Vaidya Nath thrived on the support of his relatives, and the scholarships he won on the account of him being an exceptional student. Soon he became proficient in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit languages, which he first learnt locally and later at Varanasi and Calcutta, where he was also semi-employed, while pursuing his studies. Meanwhile he married Aparajita Devi and the couple had six children.
He started his literary career with Maithili poems by the pen-name of Yatri (यात्री) in the early 1930s. By the mid 1930s, he started writing poetry in Hindi. His first permanent job of a full-time teacher, took him to Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), though he didn't stay there for long as his urge to delve deeper into Buddhist scriptures, took him to the Buddhist monastery at Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, where in 1935, he became a Buddhist monk, entered the monastery and studied the scriptures, just as his mentor, Rahul Sankrityayan had done earlier, and hence took upon the name "Nagarjun". While at the monastery, he also studied Leninism and Marxism ideologies, before returning to India in 1938 to join 'Summer School of Politics' organised by noted peasant leader, Sahajanand Saraswati, founder of Kisan Sabha. A wanderer by nature, Nagarjun spent a considerable amount of his time in the 1930s and the 1940s travelling across India.
...
Wikipedia