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'''Moreshwar Ramchandra Paradkar''' (1729–1794), popularly known in Maharashtra as '''Moropant''' or Mayur Pandit, was a Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as ''pandit'' poets. He was born in a Karhade Brahmin family at Panhala. (Mukteshwar, Vaman Pandit, Raghunath Pandit, and Shridhar Pandit were other prominent ''pandit'' poets.)
Moropant had planned to write 108 Ramayan-s, but the actual number written by him comes to 94–95. Some of the versions probably cover only a stanza or two or five. He wrote Niroshhth Ramayan, which eschews all consonants of pa-varga. Since labial or oshhthya consonants are absent, it is called Nirishhtha Ramayan. Some versions were dedicated to a single poetic metre, like Vibudhapriya-Ramayan and Panch-chaamara Ramayan..his great-grandson Kapil ramkrushna paradkar stays at Pune at vitthalwadi sinhagad road .he retired from international book depot recently after 55 years of service
==Works== He is most famous for his mastery over ''Arya'' (आर्या) and ''Pruthvi'' (पृथ्वी) chhanda-s. Kekavali was his last major work, which he finished in early 1790s.
The following are some of the works of Moropant:
* ''Aryabaharat'' (आर्याभारत) (17,170 Arya couplets, plus two : one quatrain in Shardulvikridit, one in Arya-geeti) * Marathi ''Ramayan'' (रामायण) (16,000 couplets) * ''Arya-Kekavali'' (आर्याकेकावली, in Arya metre; this one should not be confused with his more famous Kekavali) * ''Mantrabhagawat'' (मंत्रभागवत) (3,592 couplets) * ''Krushnavijay'' (कृष्णविजय) (3,669 couplets) * ''Harivamsha'' (हरिवंश) (5,444 couplets) * ''Brahmottarakhand'' (ब्रह्मोत्तरखंड) (1,200 couplets) * ''Kekavali'' (केकावली, 121 quatrains in पृथ्वी, and the last one in Sragdhara; his last major work) * ''Samshaya-Ratnamala'' (संशय-रत्नमाला) * ''Satigeet'' (सतीगीत)
== References == * {{cite book|url=http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/gazeetter_reprint/Language%20and%20literature/chapter_3.pdf | title=Languages and Literature |chapter=Hindi |first=M. D. |last=Paradkar |series=Maharashtra State Gazetteers |publisher=Government of Maharashtra |access-date=23 October 2011}}
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Category:Marathi-language writers Category:1729 births Category:1794 deaths