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| Kashinath Bagwan passes away | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 18
Kashinath Bagwan, a well know poet of Kashmiri language and educationist breathed his last at his residence, yesterday at the age of 87.
Bagwan is the first Kashmiri poet who translated sacred Hindu scriptures ‘Maha Bharat’ and ‘Baagwat’ in to Kashmiri. Born in a family of a school teacher in Anantnag town on April 21, 1921 also started his carrier as a school teacher and retired as head master in 1976.
He started writing poetry from the early childhood and published his first composition of Gazals ‘Nalah Dil’ at the age of nineteen in 1940 which brought his recognition as a poet and never looked back ‘Bagwan’ became a house hold name in Kashmir valley following publication of ‘Sharika Daiya, a composition of the devotional songs in 1950. These songs were sun on instruments by the famous singers of the state besides devotees sung them in the temples and Hindu marriages were incomplete without these songs.
The urge, to eradicate the menace of social and political evils from the society, Bagwan published ‘Tuith Nabad’ (Bitter Sugar) a composition of songs on social and political evils. His other publications are ‘Acchar Gund’ (Bunch of words) a book of devotional songs, ‘Mallu Sarmaayi’ (Costly Wealth) 1700 phrases, idioms and proverbs of Kashmiri language with explanation hais proved as an assed fo the Kashmir literature.
Tireless Bagwan took translation of 17800 verses of 334 Adiyas from twelve Askands of ‘Baagwat’ as a life’s mission at the fag of his life when he crossed 77 years of his age and completed the work in 2001.
On his passing away Prof. Dr. Bushan Lal Koul, renowned author said, “Bagwan was an outstanding Kashmiri poet, a literary personality, intellectual, scholar, historian and a man with sacred devotional mission had deeply peeped into the Indian History, culture and literature”. He said that on one hand the contribution of Bagwan to the Kashmiri literature was appreciable and on the other hand the Vishnov Bakhti Philosophy was brought closer to Shiva Philosophy by his works.
Large number of people, literary personalities and intellectuals attended his last rites and paid their homage to his literary figure. |
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