Bihari lal photo

Indian poet

For the Bengali poet, see Biharilal Chakraborty.

Bihari Lal Chaube
'The Poet Bihari Offers Homage to Radha and Krishna', attributed to Nainsukh, ca.1760–65
Born	1595 Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
Died	1663 Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation	Poet
Period	Riti Kaal
Literary movement	Ritikaal

Bihari Lal Chaube or Bihārī (1595–1663)^[1] was a Hindi poet, who is famous for writing the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished from narrative and simpler styles.^[2] Today it is considered the most well known book of the Ritikavya Kaal or 'Riti Kaal'(an era in which poets wrote poems for kings) ^[3] of Hindi literature.^[4]

The language is the form of Hindi called Brajbhasha, spoken in the country about Mathura, where the poet lived.

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