{"id":"lekhnath-paudyal","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal","language":"en","name":"Lekhnath Paudyal","name_en":"Lekhnath Paudyal","name_ne":"लेखनाथ पौड्याल","description":"Nepali-language poet","headline":"Nepali-language poet","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Lekhnath Paudyal (Nepali: लेखनाथ पौड्याल; 1885–1966) is regarded as the founding father of modern Nepali poetry literature (Nepali: कविशिरोमणि (Kavi Shiromani)) in the twentieth-century. His most important contribution is believed to be to the enrichment and refinement of the language rather than to its philosophical breadth. The best of Lekhnath's poems adhered to the old-fashioned conventions of Sanskrit poetics (kavya).","summary_more":["Poudyal, the first modern Nepali poet, wrote in the classical style of Nepali poetry. His poems possessed a formal dignity that had been lacking in most earlier works in Nepali; many of them conformed in their outlook with the philosophy of orthodox Vedanta, although others were essentially original in their tone and inspiration. His poems often mentioned contemporary social and political issues and remain popular. It is believed there were the first glimmerings of the poetic spirit that was to come after him."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1885","date":"1885"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1966","date":"1966"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614#P570"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"poet","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49757"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekhnath_Paudyal","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Lekhnath Paudyal born?","a":"Lekhnath Paudyal was born on 1885 in Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"The Buddha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/the-buddha"},{"name":"Dona Sarkar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dona-sarkar"},{"name":"Balkrishna Sama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/balkrishna-sama"},{"name":"Radha Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/radha-paudel"},{"name":"Yogmaya Neupane","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yogmaya-neupane"},{"name":"Bhupi Sherchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhupi-sherchan"},{"name":"Taranath Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/taranath-sharma"},{"name":"Ambalika Devi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi"},{"name":"Chittadhar Hridaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chittadhar-hridaya"},{"name":"Siddhicharan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siddhicharan-shrestha"},{"name":"Krishna Lal Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-lal-adhikari"},{"name":"Nisthananda Bajracharya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nisthananda-bajracharya"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/lekhnath-paudyal-88eeda076c.jpg","width":296,"height":396,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Devkota Sagar","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lekhnath_Paudyal.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Lekhnath Paudyal","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekhnath_Paudyal","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): लेखनाथ पौड्याल","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6520614","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6520614","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Lekhnath Paudyal.jpg by Devkota Sagar (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lekhnath_Paudyal.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Lekhnath Paudyal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Lekhnath Paudyal.jpg — Devkota Sagar, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Lekhnath Paudyal\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:57:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal?lang=ne"}}