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Pandit LakhmiChand of Jantti Kalan, Sonipat, Haryana, India is known as Surya Kavi (Sun Poet) in Haryanvi Raagnis and Swangs.

Pandit LakhmiChand (1903-1945) was a Haryanvi Poet and Play writer, widely regarded as greatest poet of Haryanvi language and known as Sun Poet or Surya Kavi in Haryana and Western Uttar-Pradesh Region of North India. He was born to simple gaur brahmin family in village located on the bank of river Yamuna named "Janti Kalan" in Sonipat District(District Rohtak at that time) of State Haryana in India. Pandit LakhmiChand's father pandit Umadiraam was a farmer with a small land for farming. When Pandit LakhmiChand grows a little then his father let him work as cowboy rather than sending him to school. Pandit LakhmiChand was very bright in singing and his voice was very sweet since childhood so he started passing his time by singing songs to his frinds and making random songs. By time he passed his early childhood the interest in singing build so strong in him so he started going far places just to listen Swangs and Ragnies. He was regularly ran from his home for long periods just to listen Swangs. Once, He elope from his home for lot of days just to listen haryanvi singers like Pandit DeepChand, Nihaal Singh. At last he got chance to listen the very famous haryanvi singer Pandit Maan Singh who was invited to his village to sing in a marriage function.

After listening Poet Maan Singh on very first time, young Lakhmichand was captivated by his sweet voice and he requested him to become his student and he left his home with him. After accompanying and serving Pandit Maan Singh for an year when Pandit LakhmiChand returned home he was a complete Poet and a haryanvi folk singer.

There are few saying about Pandit LakhmiChand and Pandit Mann Singh like Pandit Mann was not great poet but he got intelligent student like lakhmichand.

It is also said that initially before meeting Pandit Maan Singh, Pandit LakhmiChand's songs were very vulgar but his vocabulary and word combination were so good and he was making songs about anything, When Pandit Maan Singh visited his village listen his songs, he was greatly impressed by Lakhmichand's voice and word combinations. Pandit Maan Singh understood that this boy is lacking in knowledge but having great talent and he himself offered him that he can teach him. It is also said that Pandit Maan Singh has given "Bramh Gyaan" to lakhmichand to clean his thoughts he taught him Vedas also. Pandit Lakhmichand Dedicated his whole life to his guru Pandit Maan Singh.

Later after mastery on poetry and singing lakhmichad went to Mr. ShreeChand from Mehndipur, To learn acting, he joined his group later he joined famous sangi Sohan Kundalwala but he was completely devotee of his teacher Pandit Maan Singh. Finally he made his own singing group (Folk theater group) with his friend Jailal aka Jailee who was also student of Pandit Maan Singh and started doing his own programs of singing which was based on general awareness, religious and tales. Within a small period of time he became most popular and successful poet of haryanvi language in north India and he got the title of 'Sun Poet'. Initially his songs or creations are are based on beauty and love but later he made lot songs on general issues and awareness, religious, spiritual and moral issues. He was so popular in every class of socity as some of his creations are used commonly as sayings in haryanvi language these days.

Pandit LakhmiChand was blessed with versatile talent. He was not only a poet or a singer but he was a generous donator who was doing people welfare and want to improve general values of rural Haryana where education was not important at that time. Then he come in contact of Pandit TikaRam from Rohtak who was a Indian freedom fighter, he was impressed by Pandit LakhmiChand's poetry and requested him to stay with him to learn Sanskrit languade and Vedas.

Pandit LakhmiChand made more than 20 swangs and his famous ones are Notanki, Hoor Meneka, Bhakh PooranMal, Satyawaan Sawtri, Shahi Lakadhara, Mahabharat, Krishna Janam, Raja Bhaoj, ShranDey, Nal Damyanti, Chaap Singh, Bhoop Puranjan. Apart from swangs he made some creations based on themes of morality, folk tales, lives of inspiring personalities, stories from Indian mythology and in recent times, more current themes like health and hygiene, literacy, AIDS awareness, and women's empowerment etc.

Different poetry shades like Vir-Gathas (poems extolling brave warriors), Bhakti poems (devotional poems), Riti or Srngar poems (poems of romance), Modern literaturewith with superb Rhyme and words combination, all these qualities are more than enough to call him 'Sun Poet'.

He died in 1945 at the age of 45.

A famous folk poet Mr Jagdish Chandr has written about Pnadit Lakhmichand's life and personality.

माता –पिता ने तप करके वो पुत्र रूप मे पाये थे

आत्म - ज्ञान से आशा तृष्णा ना कदे पास फटकती थी राग - भाग बैराग त्याग संतोष वीरता शक्ति थी दया धर्म पुण्ण दान-शीलता गुरु में श्रद्धा भक्ति थी ताल तर्ज सुरीली कविता नौ रस भरी टपकती थी चरणों लक्ष्मी झुकती थी पर हाथ द्रव ना लाये थे

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