# Bhalan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bhalan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bhalan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhalan > Source revision: 1310113839 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Gujarati Poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} [[File:House of Bhalan.jpg|thumb|Bhalan's house in [Patan](/source/Patan%2C_Gujarat)]] '''Bhalan''' (b. 15th century in [Patan](/source/Patan%2C_Gujarat) in the present-day [Gujarat](/source/Gujarat) state in [India](/source/India)), was a famous [Gujarati](/source/Gujarati_language) poet of the medieval period. Also a scholar of [Sanskrit](/source/Sanskrit) literature, he is considered a major contributor in Bhakti-kal in [Gujarati literature](/source/Gujarati_literature).{{cite book|author=Sheldon Pollock|title=Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak9csfpY2WoC&pg=PA580|accessdate=19 September 2017|date=19 May 2003|publisher=University of California Press|location=California|isbn=978-0-520-22821-4|page=580}} ==Works== According to [Narsinhrao Divatia](/source/Narsinhrao_Divatia), his best works are ''Kadambari'' and ''Nalakhyan''.{{cite book|author=Narsinhrao Bholanath Divetia|author-link=Narsinhrao Divetia|title=Gujarati Language and Literature|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.127207/2015.127207.Gujarati-Language-And-Literature-Vol-ii#page/n249/mode/2up|accessdate=4 March 2018|year=1993|publisher=Asian Educational Services|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-206-0648-7|page=219}} ''Kadambari'' is an abridged Gujarati rendering of [Banabhatta](/source/Banabhatta)'s well-known [Sanskrit](/source/Sanskrit) prose work ''[Kadambari](/source/Kadambari)'' in verse. He extracted the pulp from the [Puranas](/source/Puranas) and converted it into various significant works, which include ''Nalakhyan'', ''Shiv-Bhiladi Samvad'', ''Durvasa Akhyan'', ''Mrugi Akhyan'', ''Jalandhar Akhyan'', ''Mamaki Akhyan'', ''Chandi Akhyan'' and ''Dhruv Akhyan''. He was an exponent of the genres of the ''[Akhyana](/source/Akhyana)'' and ''Kavita'' in [Gujarati literature](/source/Gujarati_literature). Bhalan also wrote the poems ''Ram Balacharita'' and ''Krishna Balacharita'', which describe the depth of the childness of both gods. Bhalan was the first Gujarati writer to use the word, ''Gujarabhasha'' (Gujarati language) in his ''Nalakhyan'' to describe the language of his poem. ==References== {{reflist}} *''Milestones in Gujarati Literature'' by K M Jhaveri. *Brahmbhatt, Prasad, ''Kavyasarita.'' (Literary Criticism of the evolution of Poetry). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication, 2003. *Trivedi, Ramesh. M. ''Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihaas'' (History of Modern Gujarati Literature). Ahmedabad: Adarsh Prakashan, 1994. *Trivedi, Ramesh. M. ''Gujarati Sahityano Itihaas'' (History of Gujarati Literature). Ahmedabad: Adarsh Prakashan, 2005. ==Further reading== * {{cite book|last=Shastri|first=Keshavram Kashiram|author-link=Keshavram Kashiram Shastri|title=ભાલણ : એક અધ્યયન|trans-title=Bhalan : A Study|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.305935|year=1958 |oclc=78491478}} ==External links== * Bhalan's [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.304755 Nalakhyana] at [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) * [http://gujaratonline.com/arts/sahitya.htm History of Gujarati Literature] {{authority control}} Category:Gujarati-language poets Category:15th-century Indian poets Category:People from Patan district Category:Bhakti movement Category:Poets from Gujarat Category:Indian male poets {{India-poet-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Bhalan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhalan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhalan?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.