Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte (1908- 1998) was a Marathi writer and researcher of old Marathi literature. He hailed from Maharashtra, India. He researched about 20 ancient copper plates and stone inscriptions in Marathi, Prakrit, and Kannada languages. He decoded literature of Mahanubhav pandits, which they had written in an obscure code language in the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th century. He wrote exhaustive introductions to his books about the researched literature. For Kolte's scholarly book on Leela Charitra, the first known biography in Marathi, the All India Mahanubhava Parishad conferred on him in 1956 the title Vidyaratna. Kolte authored a book on simplification of Marathi orthography. He was President of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, the conference on Marathi Literature held at Bhopal in 1967.