Jagannath Prasad Bhanu
Jagannath Prasad Bhanu was a Hindi scholar of poetry and prose. He is recognized as a pioneering scholar of aesthetics in Hindi. His best known work was the Chandaḥprabhākara, a work of Hindi prose, published in nine editions during his life.
Life
Jagannath Prasad Bhanu was born on 8 August 1859 at Nagpur, the capital of then Central Provinces. He spent most of his life in Bilaspur in modern-day Chhattisgarh. He was a scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit, Prakrit, English, Urdu, Persian, Odia and Marathi. He was especially interested in linguistics and mathematics.In 1940, Bhanu received the title of Mahamahopadhyaya. He died in 1945.