India Mint Stamp

Lokith Philately

Permanent Pictorial cancellation of Bihar

Permanent Pictorial Cancellation inaugural day covers

Date of issue: 14.01.2013

Pin code: 847121

Status: Active

PO Name: Bisfi

Description: Bisfi is a Mandal in Madhubani district of Bihar. Which is the Birthplace of Maithili Poet Vidyapati. (1352-1448) also known as Maithil Kavi Kokil, was a Polymath-Poet-Saint, Dramatist, Musician, Biographer, Philosopher, Legal-Theorist, Writer, Courtier and Royal Priest in Maithili and Sanskrit. He was a devotee of Shiva, but also wrote Love Songs and Vaishnava Devotional Songs. A versatile writer who exerted tremendous influence on the poets and writers of North India, which crossed geographical boundaries and inspired poets and Vaishnava preachers of Bengal, Assam, Orissa and Nepal. 

A versatile genius, he successfully wrote poems in Apabhramsa, Sanskrit and Maithili languages, but his immortal fame rests on his Padavali, whose range of poetry is amazing. It is a mixture of all types of poetry - love, devotion, attractive postures, gestures, movements and vibrations of the human heart. In other words, he moulded every poetic element into a harmony of artistic perfection, his creation had a great influence on the writers of the times to come. The language of his time, Abhatha, derived from Prakrit, was beginning to transform into the early versions of eastern languages like Maithili. Thus, Vidyapati's influence on the formation of these languages has been described as "similar to the influence of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England".