Akinchan Chakrabarty
Akinchan Chakrabarty (
Chandimangalkavya), Shitala-Panchali and Ganga Mangal.[1][2] He was greeted by the Brahmins as Kavindra ("Great Poet")[3] and lived at Bengaral village near Ghatal in modern-day Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal).[2]
The exact date of his first poem Shitala-Panchali or Shitala-Mangal is unknown.
Not much of Akinchan's personal or family life is known except that his father Purushottam lived at Atghara-Srirampur village near Ghatal and Akinchan had three sons: Ramchand, Ramdulal and Shibananda.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bhattacharya, Ashutosh (2009). Bangla Mangalkavyer Itihas [History of Medieval Narrative Poetry] (in Bengali) (12th ed.). Kolkata: A Mukherjee & Co Pvt Ltd. pp. 465–73.
- ^ ISBN 81-7955-007-9.
- ^ ISBN 81-7215-025-3.