Vidyapati
After Jayadeva, Vidyapati was the
foremost bhakta in the eastern part of india. His poems in the Maithili
language on Radha and Krishna and his description in 1000 verses of the
Durga festival are well known.
Vidyapati was born in the village of Bisapi in Madhubani, on the eastern side of north Bihar. Courtier, scholar, and prose-writer, Vidyapati, though a Bengali poet, is primarily known for his love-lyrics composed in Maithili, a language spoken in the towns and villages of Mithila. Vidyapati's love-songs re-create and reveal the world of loving pastimes of the Divine Couple Sri Radha and Sri Krishna. Such poems convey the devotion of Krishna's worshippers through the metaphor of devotional love and seperation. While Jayadeva's poem celebrates Krishna's love and pays comparatively little attention to Radha, Vidyapati is primarily concerned with the intense passion of Radha's love. At once sensuous and sensual, descriptive and dramatic, Vidyapati's songs range beyond the mythological only to find their place deep in the heart of the devotee whose dreams and desires never die, whose sighs and cries never end.
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