Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets/Monaparto
MONAPARTO.
A Maharata, brahmin and Inhabitant of Satarah, he lived 200 years ago, and in his infancy was educated in the Maharata language. He afterwards entered the service of the Satara Rajah as a writer to the Royal Cavalry, and continued in this occupation till his fortieth year, when he became a disciple of the God Vital, and composed one hundred Araya verses, in the Maharata language, containing the praise of Vishnu. He died in the fiftieth year of his age, at Pandrapore.