Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali Sir Rabindranath Tagore Bengali edition

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur) is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed in Brajabuli by Rabindranath Tagore. It was published in 1884. These lyrics, which were earlier brought out in several issues of Bharati magazine, were first anthologized in 1884. Later, Tagore described composing these songs in his reminiscences Jiban Smriti. Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali in Brajabuli under the pseudonym Bhanusimha ("Sun Lion") at age sixteen.