1. Balashankar Kantharia was born on May 17,1858, into a Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family in Nadiad, Bombay Presidency.
10 Facts About Balashankar Kantharia
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Balashankar Kantharia was born to Ullasram Arjunlal Kantharia, a government magistrate, and Revaba, and had one brother, Umedram, and one sister, Rukshmani.
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Balashankar Kantharia was a polyglot and knew Gujarati, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Braj and Hindi languages as well as music and archaeology.
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Balashankar Kantharia managed Bharati Bhusan, Itihas Mala, Krishna Mahoday magazines.
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Balashankar Kantharia served as an editor of Buddhiprakash magazine briefly.
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Balashankar Kantharia is considered as the founder of the modern Gujarati poetry and Ghazal.
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Balashankar Kantharia considered himself as a follower of Dalpatram and was expert in poetry in Shikharini metre.
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Balashankar Kantharia died due to the plague, on April 1,1898, at Baroda.
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Balashankar Kantharia is credited with bringing Persian style poetry such as Ghazal in Gujarati literature.
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Balashankar Kantharia had translated Karpuramanjari by Rajasekhara, Mrcchakatika and Sufi Ghazals of Hafez in Gujarati.