Kashiram Das
Kashiram Das or
Kāśīrām Dās (, ; born 16th century) is an important poet in medieval
Bengali literature. His Bengali re-telling of the ''
Mahābhārata'', known as ''Kāśīdāsī Môhābhārôt'', is a popular and influential version of the ''Mahābhārata'' legend in
Bengal. Although the entire work is intra-textually ascribed to him, most scholars agree that he composed only the first four of the eighteen books (''parvas''). As with the ''
Rāmāyaṇa'' of
Kṛttibās Ojhā, Kāśīrām freely removed elements and added other legends to the story. ''Dās'' is not a last name and is a title meaning 'servant' in the
Vaiṣṇava tradition; the name is also written as
Kashiramdas.
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