Mahakavi

The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an honorific and means "Great Poet." It could refer to any of the following (in alphabetical order): -

• Mahakavi Kumaran Asan, a Malayali poet.
• Vallathol Narayana Menon, a Malayali poet.
• Srirangam Srinivasarao or Sri Sri, a Telugu poet.
• Subramanya Bharathy, a Tamil poet.
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota, a Nepali poet.
• Vidyapati, (1352 – 1448), also known as the Maithil Kokil Vidyapati (Vidyapati, the cuckoo of Maithili), famous for his poems in Maithili language.