Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali

The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur) is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed in Brajabuli by Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali in Brajabuli under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha at age sixteen.

Young Tagore was attracted to the Maithili poems collected in Prachin Kavya Samgraha, edited by Akshay Chandra Sarkar and Sarada Charan Mitra.

It was dedicated to Kadambari Devi, Tagore's sister-in-law who was eager to see the poems published, but committed suicide in 1883.

[4] The Bhanusimha poems chronicle the romance between Radha and Krishna which is a traditional theme of Indian poetry.

Rabindranath Tagore at the time he wrote the first "Bhanusimha" song, 1877. A sketch by Gaganendranath Tagore .
The Bhanusimha poems chronicle the romance between Radha and Krishna which is a traditional theme of Indian poetry.