Padmanābha

{{Short description|15th-century Indian poet and historian}}

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Padmanābha was a 15th-century Indian poet and historian.Gujarat Unknown: Hindu-Muslim Syncretism and Humanistic Forays By J. J. Roy Burman He has been hailed as the Yug Charan (Charan of the Era) for commemorating Kanhadade's struggle in his famous treatise "Kanhadade Prabandha", written in 1455.{{Cite book |last=Śrīmālī |first=Rāmeśvaradayāla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MdjAAAAMAAJ |title=Padmanābha |date=1993 |publisher=Sāhitya Akādemī |isbn=978-81-7201-340-0 |language=hi |quote=कहने की आवश्यकता नहीं कि पद्मनाभ जैसे युग चारण कवि कभी-कभी ही पैदा होते हैं और अपने समय के काव्य ही नहीं, इतिहास को भी धार देते हैं। सुप्रसिद्ध इतिहासकार डॉ. दशरथ शर्मा ने कान्हडदे प्रबन्ध एवं पद्मनाभ के सम-सामयिक रचनाकारों के प्रबन्ध - काव्यों का गम्भीरतापूर्वक अध्ययन किया है ।}}Gujarat Unknown: Hindu-Muslim Syncretism and Humanistic Forays By J. J. Roy Burman

This work has been praised as the finest work in Dingal (Old Gujarati or Old Western Rajasthani), and one of the greatest Indian works written during the medieval period by eminent scholars like Muni Jinvijay, K.M. Munshi, Dasharatha Sharma and K.B. Vyas.Foreword in: Padmanābha, ., & Bhatnagar, V. S. (1991). Kānhaḍade prabandha: India's greatest patriotic saga of medieval times : Padmanābha's epic account of Kānhaḍade. New Delhi: Voice of India. The German Indologist Georg Bühler was the first Western scholar who wrote about this treatise.Foreword in: Padmanābha, ., & Bhatnagar, V. S. (1991). Kānhaḍade prabandha: India's greatest patriotic saga of medieval times : Padmanābha's epic account of Kānhaḍade. New Delhi: Voice of India. The work was translated into English by V.S. Bhatnagar, a professor of History at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.Padmanābha, ., & Bhatnagar, V. S. (1991). Kānhaḍade prabandha: India's greatest patriotic saga of medieval times : Padmanābha's epic account of Kānhaḍade. New Delhi: Voice of India.