Effective period / Period of releases: 1977

Vidyapati (1352–1448), also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili), was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer.

Vidyapati's poetry was widely influential in centuries to come, in the Hindustani as well as Bengali, Maithili, Newari, less actively Nepali language and other Eastern literary traditions. The language at the time of Vidyapati, the prakrit-derived late abahatta, had just begun to transition into early versions of the Eastern languages Maithili, Nepali, Bengali, Oriya, etc.[citation needed] Thus, Vidyapati's influence on making these languages has been described as "analogous to that of Dante in Italy and Chaucer in England".[5]