Chakrapani Chalise ( ne, चक्रपाणि चालिसे) was a Nepalese poet. He wrote the words of the first national anthem of Nepal in 1924 AD to the music composed by Bakhat Bahadur Budhapirthi in 1899 AD (grandfather of musician
Louis Banks
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Bir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana
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's era. Later the Nepali Language Publications Committee was ordered to write words for the anthem. Chakrapani being assistant to Superintendent of the Committee, wrote the words for the anthem.
Chakrapani is considered as the poet who connected two different eras in
Nepali literature
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.
Motiram Bhatta
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's romanticistic era was connected to
Lekhnath Paudyal
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's era by Pandit Chakrapani. Later, a commemorative stamp of Nepali Rupees 4.5 was issued for his contribution to Nepali literature.
His 133rd birth anniversary was celebrated by prize distribution and literary programme at
Katunje
Katunje is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 4027 living in 824 individual households..
One of the major weekly mar ...
,
Bhaktapur
, motto = ne, पुर्खले सिर्जेको सम्पत्ती, हाम्रो कला र संस्कृति , lit=Creation of our ancestors, our heritage and culture
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by Chakrapani Smarak Samiti (a memorial committee).
Early years
Chakrapani Chalise was born on 1940 B.S. (1883 A.D.) at
Katunje
Katunje is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 4027 living in 824 individual households..
One of the major weekly mar ...
,
Bhaktapur district
Bhaktapur district ( ne, भक्तपुर जिल्ला; Nepal Bhasa : ख्वप देश (जिल्ला) located in the eastern part of Kathmandu valley, is the smallest district among the seventy-seven districts of Nep ...
in a
Chalise
Chalise (pronounced: /cha.li.se/) ( ne, चालिसे) is a Khas Hindu family name found in Nepal. People with this name are mostly members of the Bahun (Brahmin) caste. According to legend, some priests of Bhattarai caste completed forty (' ...
Brahmin family to father Premlal Chalise and mother. His mother died while he was young and he left to mother's maternal home after ill treatment by step mother. He married aged 12 to Gayatri Devi. He thereafter got realized and became a siddha guru.