 By the time he started publishing his work in Hindi regularly, he had already established as a writer of repute in Maithili in a very short span of time give to his farsighted, timeless work which vehemently attacked social taboos of Mithila (Maithili Language Speaking Area) deeply ingrained in its culture.During his lifetime, the first poetry collection that came (in the year 1958) was titled "Swargandha".His next poetry collection came 14 years after his death and 23 years after publication of his first poetry collection in 1981.