Vidyapati
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Bangla and Maithili poet and Sanskrit writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vidyapati , also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil , was a Maithili and Sanskrit polymath-poet-saint, playwright, composer, biographer, philosopher, law-theorist, writer, courtier and royal priest. He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote love songs and devotional Vaishnava songs. He knew Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and Maithili.
