Nepal Bhasa renaissance

Nepal Bhasa renaissance (Nepal Bhasa: नेपालभाषा पुनर्जागरण) was the movement to revive and modernize the Nepal Bhasa language during the period 1909 to 1941.^[1] The movement was spontaneous and not orchestrated. However, the sum total of activities conducted during this era had a profound impact on the overall course of the language development.^[2]

the repression of Nepal Bhasa and its banning from official use by the ;^[2]

Rana regime

the first generation of modern Nepalese scholars' attempts to modernize the Nepal Bhasa language;

and Buddhist literary movements in India and Nepal;

Hindu

The regional of Bengal^[3]

language movement

Many factors had an impact in the Nepal Bhasa renaissance, including:

Nisthananda Bajracharya

Siddhidas Mahaju

Jagat Sundar Malla

Yogbir Singh Kansakar

one of the four martyrs of the Nepalese revolution that toppled the Rana regime

Shukraraj Shastri

Dharmaditya Dharmacharya

The most prominent people of this era were ^[2]

Nisthananda, Siddhidas, Jagat Sundar and Yogbir Singh are considered as the Four Pillars of Nepal Bhasa.^[4]^[5]

a Sanskrit Buddhist text based on the Buddha's life story was translated by Nisthananda Bajracharya, one of the four pillars of Nepal Bhasa during this era.^[9]

Lalitvistara

Hindu epic by Siddhidas Mahaju,^[10]

Ramayan

by Jagat Sundar Malla ^[8]

Aesop's fables

The epic by Chittadhar Hridaya^[13] is the greatest epic written in the language along the lines of Nisthananda Bajracharya.

Sugata Saurabha

The which helped establish Nepal Bhasa as a national language of Nepal after the 2006 democratic movement was along the lines of the movement of Dharmaditya Dharmacharya.

Nepal Bhasa movement

Much of the literary activities conducted in modern era were a propagation of the activities initiated in this era. The era created a new breed of modern writers. Unlike medieval era or dark era writers, these writers were commoners and not aristocrats. Hence, literature reached the grass-roots level of society. Some of the most prominent impacts of the activities of this era are