The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an
Indian honorific
Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships. These may take the form of prefixes, suffixes or replacements.
Native hon ...
which means "Great Poet" in Sanskrit. This may refer to:
Poets
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Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa (''fl.'' 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and t ...
, 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and epic poet, popularly known as "Mahakavi Kalidasa"
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Bharavi, 6th century Sanskrit poet
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Bāṇabhaṭṭa, 7th-century Sanskrit writer and poet
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Bhavabhuti, 8th-century Sanskrit poet, and playwright
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Magha (poet), 7th century Sanskrit poet
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Shriharsha, 12th century Sanskrit philosopher-poet
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Janna, known as Mahakavi Janna, 13th-century Kannada poet
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Vidyapati (1352–1448), also known as ''Maithil Kavi Kokil'' (the poet cuckoo of Maithili language), Maithili poet and Sanskrit writer
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Kshetrayya (c. 1600–1680) Telugu poet of songs for Krishna
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Subramania Bharati
C. Subramania Bharathi Birth name: C. Subramaniyan, the person's given name: Subramaniyan, father's given name: Chinnaswami. (C. Subramaniyan by the prevalent patronymic initials as prefix naming system in Tamil Nadu and it is Subramaniyan C ...
(1882–1921), Tamil writer, poet and journalist, and Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu, popularly known as "Mahakavi Bharathi", he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and is considered one of the greatest Tamil literary figures of all time
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Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay
Ayodhya Singh Upadhyay ‘Hari Oudh', (15 April 1865 – 16 March 1947) was a writer of Hindi literature. He was the Chairman of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and had been conferred the title of Vidyavachaspati.
Life
He worked in the Hindi Depar ...
(1865–1947), modern Hindi poet
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Moyinkutty Vaidyar (1852–1892), Muslim Malayalam poet of the Mappila pattu genre
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Kumaran Asan (1873–1924), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
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Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (1877–1949), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
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Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878–1958), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
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K.V. Simon
Mahakavi Kunnampurathu Varghese Simon (7 February 1883 – 1944) was a
Malayalam Christian poet from Kerala, India. He was also a musician, a teacher, a reformer, a writer, a Bible scholar and apologist. Simon authored around three hundred hy ...
(1883–1944), Christian Malayalam poet, Sanskrit scholar and polyglot
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Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan
Mahakavi Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan (born 1903) was a Malayalam poet.
Birth and family
He was born on 5 September 1903 at Puthencavu, a village in present day Alapuzha district of Kerala, South India, then in Travancore to Kizhakkethalakal Eap ...
(1903–1993), Christian Malayalam poet
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P. C. Devassia
Plakkiyil Chacko Devassia, often known as Mahakavi P. C. Devassia (24 March 1906 – 10 October 2006), was a Sanskrit scholar and poet from Kerala, India. In 1980 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his Mahakavyam (epic poem ) ...
(1906–2006), Christian Sanskrit scholar and poet
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Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), Nepali poet
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Gurajada Apparao (1862-1915), playwright, dramatist, poet, and writer; his play ''Kanyasulkam'' is considered as the greatest play in the Telugu language
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Dasu Sriramulu (1846-1908), scholar, dramatist, poet, orator and writer. Author of several literary works - kavyalu, satakas, plays, lyrics for musical and dance compositions
Others
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''Mahakavi'' (TV series), a 2016 Indian television documentary about Hindi poets hosted by poet Kumar Vishwas
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