Krittibas Ojha or Kirttibas Ojha (c. 15th century) was a medieval Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 poet. His major contribution to Bangla literature and culture was the translation of the great Indian epic Ramayana

Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...

 to Bangla. His work, the Sri Ram Panchali, is popularly known as the Krittivasi Ramayan

Krittivasi Ramayan

Krittivasi Ramayan or Krittibasi Ramayan or Sri Ram Panchali , composed by 15th century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, is a translation of the Ramayana into Bengali, which represents the first translation of the Ramayana into any North Indian language other than Sanskrit...

. In 1803, his work, edited by Jaygopal Tarkalamkar, was published by the Serampore Mission Press

Serampore Mission Press

The Serampore Mission Press was established in Serampore in 1800 by William Carey, William Ward and other British Baptist missionaries as an auxiliary of the Serampore Mission. The press produced 212,000 books between 1800 and 1832. The British government highly suspicious of missionaries...

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Life

Krittibas Ojha was born in a Brahmin family in Phulia

Phulia

Phulia is a census town under Shantipur police station of Ranaghat subdivision in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal....

 village in the present-day Nadia district

Nadia District

Nadia district is a district of the state of West Bengal, in the north east of India. It borders with Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Bardhaman district to the west, and Murshidabad district to the north....

 of West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

state. He was son of Banamali Ojha and grandson of Murari Ojha.