What is "moropant"

Moropant Ramchandra Paradkar ( Devanagari: मोरेश्वर रामजी पराडकर) (1729–1794), popularly known in Maharashtra as Moropant or Mayur Pandit , was a Karhade Brahmin Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as pandit poets. (Mukteshwar, Vaman Pandit, Raghunath Pandit, and Shridhar were other prominent pandit poets.)

Moropant had planned to write 108 Ramayan-s, but the actual number written by him comes to 94-95. Some of the versions probably cover only a stanza or two or five. He wrote Niroshhth Ramayan, which eschews all consonants of pa-varga. Since labial or oshhthya consonants are absent, it is called Nirishhtha Ramayan. Some versions were dedicated to a single poetic metre, like Vibudhapriya-Ramayan and Panch-chaamara Ramayan.