Bakhar
Sign in to savethumb|right Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Bakhars are considered valuable resources depicting the Maratha view of history .
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Style
- History
- List of {{Transliteration|mr|bakhars}}
- Reliability
- References
thumb|right Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Bakhars are considered valuable resources depicting the Maratha view of history .
==Etymology== Most scholars believe that the word is a metathesis of the Arabic-origin word khabar ("information"). S. N. Joshi argues that the word is derived from the Persian word khair or bakhair ("all is well", the end salutation in a letter), since it appears at the end of most texts. Bapuji Sankpal argued that the word is derived from the Sanskrit-origin word akhyayika ("story") or it could be bhyaakh ( bhiyakhya).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bakhar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.