Bappa Bhatti and his Tārāgaṇa

Bappa Bhatti is one of those few authors about whom we get a good deal of information in different Prabandhas, mostly from Gujarāt and belonging to different periods later than 1200 A D In their present form, they are all composed nearly five hundred years after Bappa Bhatti The most important of them may be

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उपाध्ये बप्पभट्टि-सम्बन्धी स्रोतों की छानबीन करते हैं: संस्कृत 'बप्पभट्टिसूरिचरित', प्रद्युम्नसूरि द्वारा १२७७ में संशोधित प्रभाचन्द्र का 'प्रभावकचरित', राजशेखर का १३४९ का 'प्रबन्धकोश' तथा जिनप्रभ का 'तीर्थकल्प' — ये सब उनसे लगभग पाँच सौ वर्ष बाद के हैं। इसके बाद वे उनके प्राकृत 'तारागण' पर आते हैं। Upadhye sifts the sources for Bappa Bhatti: the Sanskrit Bappabhattisuri-carita, Prabhacandra's Prabhavakacarita as revised by Pradyumnasuri in 1277, Rajasekhara's Prabandhakosa of 1349 and Jinaprabha's Tirthakalpa, all of them written some five centuries after him, before he turns to his own Prakrit poem, the Taragana.

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