Damodar Khushaldas Botadkar was a Gujarati language poet of early 20th century.
Life
Botadkar was born in
Botad
Botad is a city and district headquarters of Botad district, Gujarat, India. It is about 92 km from Bhavnagar and 133 km From Ahmedabad by road distance.
Botad district is made from Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar. Erstwhile, it was part of ...
on 27 November 1870. He had primary education and started teaching at age of thirteen. He tried multiple businesses but failed. In 1893, he went to
Bombay
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with
Vaishnav
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Pushtimarg
Pushtimarg (), also known as ''Pushtimarg sampradaya'' or ''Vallabha sampradaya'', is a subtradition of the Rudra Sampradaya (Vaishnavism). It was founded in the early 16th century by Vallabhacharya (1479–1531) and is focused on Krishna. saint and started editing their religious publication. He learned
Sanskrit
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there and returned to home in 1907 due to health issues. He again started teaching in schools.
He died on 7 September 1924.
Works
Botadkar published a play titled ''Swayamvar Vidhithi Sukhi Dampati nu Natak''. His earlier poem cillections include ''Gokulgeeta'', ''Rasvarnan'', ''Subodh Kavyasangraha''. His Sanskrit-laden poetry collections ''Kallolini'' (1912), ''Srotsvini'' (1918), ''Nirjharini'' ( 1921) were followed by ''Ras-tarangini'' (1923), the folk and traditional ''Rasa'' or '' Garba'' styled poetry with simple and traditional tunes and diction. It was chiefly focused on traditional family life and styles of females and social life of that time. They are termed as ''Rasa'' poems. His ''Shaivalini'' (1925) was published posthumously.
Further reading
* Biography:
See also
* List of Gujarati-language writers
Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh J ...
References
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Gujarati-language writers
People from Botad district
20th-century Indian poets
1870 births
1924 deaths
Indian male poets
Poets from Gujarat
20th-century Indian male writers