Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Hemanda Pant
HEMANDA PANT.
This poet was a Maharata bramin, and an inhabitant of Dowlatbad according to tradition. He was employed in the service of Rama Rajah, as a dewan for some time, and afterwards on account of some accident he went to Lanka, and received some kind of rare grain, for curing the King of that place, from the effects of the evil eye. This poet introduced the mode character into the Maharata country, he died in the sixtieth year of his age, at his own residence.