Mahakavi

The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an honorific and means "Great Poet". This may refer to:

Poets

• Kālidāsa, a 5th-century Sanskrit playwright and epic poet
• Vidyapati (1352–1448), also known as Maithil Kavi Kokil (the poet cuckoo of Maithili language), a Maithili poet and Sanskrit writer
• Subramania Bharati (1882–1921), was a Tamil writer, poet and journalist, and Indian independence activist and social reformer from Tamil Nadu. Popularly known as "Mahakavi Bharatihiyar", he was a pioneer of modern Tamil poetry and is considered one of the greatest Tamil literary figures of all time.
• Moyinkutty Vaidyar (1852–1892), a Muslim Malayalam poet of the Mappila pattu genre
• Kumaran Asan (1873–1924), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
• Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (1877–1949), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
• Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878–1958), one of the modern triumvirate poets of Malayalam
• K.V. Simon (1883–1944), a Christian Malayalam poet, Sanskrit scholar and polyglot
• Puthencavu Mathan Tharakan (1903–1993), a Christian Malayalam poet
• P. C. Devassia (1906–2006), a Christian Sanskrit scholar and poet
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959), a Nepali poet.

Television Series

• Mahakavi Series, a television documentary series anchored by poet Kumar Vishwas during 2016