Keshavdas

Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet (1555–1617) KeshavdasSelf Portrait of Keshav Das c.1570BornKeshavdas Mishrac.1555Orchha, Orchha Kingdom, Mughal Empire (modern-day Madhya Pradesh, India)Diedc.1617(1617-00-00) (aged 61–62)Orchha, Orchha Kingdom, Mughal EmpireOccupationsPoet, Writer, Scholar and administratorWriting careerGenreEpic Poetry Keshavdas Mishra (1555–1617), usually known by the Keshavdas, was an Indian Poet, Writer, Scholar and administrator who was best known for his work Rasikpriya [hi], a pioneering work of the Riti Kaal [hi] of Hindi literature. He was patronized by Vir Singh Deo of Orchha, a vassal of the Mughal Empire. Life Painting of Akbar with falcon receiving Itimam Khan, while below a poor petitioner (self-portrait of the artist Keshavdas as an old man) is driven away by a royal guard, 1589 Keshavdas was a Sanadhya Brahman born in 1555 most likely near to Orchha at Tikamgarh. There were many pandits among his ancestors and inferences from his writings suggest that, as would be typical of a pandit, the preferred language of his family, and that to which he was exposed as a child, was Sanskrit. Those ancestors included Pt.Dinakara and Tribikrama, who had both