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{{Infobox person
| name = Chandravati<br/>চন্দ্রাবতী
| image =
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| birth_date = 1550
| birth_place = [[Kishoreganj]], [[Bengal]] (now in [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = 1600
| death_place = [[Kishoreganj]], [[Bengal]]
| occupation = Poet
| nationality =
| parents = Bangshi Das Bhattacharya
}}

'''Chandrabati''' ({{lang-bn|চন্দ্রাবতী}}) was a medieval [[Bengali people|Bengali]] poet, widely considered as the first woman poet of [[Bengali language]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Congress|first1=Indian History|title=Proceedings - Indian History Congress|date=2002|publisher=Indian History Congress.|page=169|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRFDAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Chandravati%27s+Ramayana+is+perhaps+the+first+feminine+text%22|accessdate=27 April 2016|language=en}}</ref> She is best known for her women-centered epic ''Ramayana''.

== Early life ==
Chandravati was born to Dij-Banshidas Bhattacharya, in circa. 1550 CE in the village of Patuyari, on the banks of the Fulesshori river in Kishoreganj which is currently located in [[Dhaka division]] of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sen |first=Dinesh Chandra |author-link=Dinesh Chandra Sen |date=1988 |orig-year=First published 1923 |title=The Ballads of Bengal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fa4fAsmtVBEC&pg=PR14 |volume=1 |publisher=Mittal Publications |pages=14–}}</ref> Bansidas was a composer of Manasa's ballads known as ''Manasar Bhasaner Gan''. According to Sambaru Chandra Mohanta, he was one of the composers of ''Manasamangal''.

== Literary works ==
Chandravati was the first woman from the [[Indian subcontinent]] to compose the [[Ramayana]] in Bengali. She also composed Malua and doshsho kenaram.<ref><url=http://sos-arsenic.net/lovingbengal/purbo.html#4></ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mazumdar|first1=Sucheta|last2=Kaiwar|first2=Vasant|last3=Labica|first3=Thierry |date=2010 |title=From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtKMAgAAQBAJ|publisher=Routledge|page=56|isbn=978-1-135-21198-1|accessdate=27 April 2016}}</ref> She narrated the Ramayana from [[Sita]]'s point of view and criticized [[Rama]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darkshire.net/lizhenry/annotatrix/viewname.cgi?name_english=Chandrabati |title=Building A Digital Feminary |last1=Dev Sen |first1=Nabaneeta |author-link=Nabaneeta Dev Sen |work=Building A Digital Feminary: Chandrabati |publisher=Liz Henry |accessdate=April 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319171338/http://www.darkshire.net/lizhenry/annotatrix/viewname.cgi?name_english=Chandrabati |archivedate=March 19, 2012 }}</ref> Chandravati is a highly individual rendition as a tale told from a woman's point of view which, instead of celebrating masculine heroism, laments the suffering of women caught in the play of male ego.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bose |first=Mandakranta |date=2013 |title=A Woman's Ramayana: Candravati's Bengali Epic |series=Routledge Hindu Studies Series |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-62529-6}}</ref> She however couldn't finish her work.

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