Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali

Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (Bengali: ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী, IPA: [bʰanuʃiŋho ʈʰakurer pɔd̪aboli]; lit. The Songs of Bhanushingho Thakur) is a collection of Vaishnava lyrics composed in Brajabuli by Rabindranath Tagore. It was published in 1884. These lyrics, which were earlier brought out in several issues of Bharati magazine, were first anthologized in 1884. Later, Tagore described composing these songs in his reminiscences Jiban Smriti. Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first substantial poems titled Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali in Brajabuli under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha at age sixteen. The anthology has 22 songs out of which only nine exists in Swarabitan (Vol. XXI), collection of notations of Tagore's music.