Bipradas Pipilai

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Bipradas Pipilai (Bengali: বিপ্রদাস পিপিলাই), was a 15th century poet. The son of Mukunda Pipilai, the family hailed from Badurya-Batagram in 24 Parganas, now in the Indian state of West Bengal.[1]


He was one of the poets who contributed to the Manasmangal series of poems in praise of the serpent-goddess, Manasa. So far, two of his manuscripts have been discovered. From these his compositions are dated at around 1495. Bejoy Gupta of Barisal wrote his Manasmangal at around the same time.[1]

Bipradas is particularly well known for his vivid description of the journeys of the merchant Chand Sadagar, giving details of Saptagram and the lower reaches of the the Hooghly-Saraswati rivers.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, (Bengali), p. 349, ISBN 8185626650