# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:46:02.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanha"
name: "Kanha"
slug: "kanha"
description: "Kānhapā, Kanha or Kanhapada or Krishnacharya was one of the main poets of Charyapada, the earliest known example of Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, and Odia literature. He was a tantric Buddhist and a disciplle of Jalandhar.Page21 Kanhapada is also a prominent siddhacharya to Nath Sampradaya after Matsyendranatha and Gorakhnath. His poems in Charjyapad are written in a code, whereby every poem has a descriptive or narrative surface meaning but also encodes tantric Buddhist teachings. Some experts believe this was to conceal sacred knowledge from the uninitiated."
tagline: "Indian poet"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Mahasiddha_Kanhapa.jpg/330px-Mahasiddha_Kanhapa.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanhapa"
    title: "Kanhapa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump