He is noted for his literary works in Dogri, Kangri, and Hindi, as well as for his various efforts to preserve and nurture the endangered folk arts of Himachal Pradesh, especially those of the Kangra region.

Vyathit was born to Faquir Chand and Sheela Devi on 15 August 1938, at village Nerti in the Kangra district of erstwhile Punjab Province, British India.

[1][2][3] Vyathit's son Durgesh Nandan, a poet and a writer, has been an active collaborator for several decades in his father's endeavours to preserve and articulate the endangered Kangri folk arts and disappearing ways of life.

[4] Vyathit has been the founder-director of the NGO 'Kangra Lok Sahitya Parishad' (translated as Kangra folk literature council), established at Nerti in 1973.

[18][19] Since the early 1970s, Vyathit has been known for re-choreographing Kangra's Jhamakara folk-dance, which earlier used to be performed by women during marriage festivities only behind closed doors, and promoting this dance as a public art form.