Sabhasad Bakhar

{{short description|Marathi language biography of Shivaji}}

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{{Infobox book

| name = Sabhasad Bakhar

| author = Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad

| title_orig = Shri-Shiva-Prabhuche-Charitra

| orig_lang_code = mr

| country = India

| language = Marathi

| subject = Biography of Shivaji

| genre = Bakhar

| pub_date = 1697

| image = Sabhasad bakhar.jpg

}}

Shri-Shiva-Prabhuche-Charitra (IAST: Śrī-Śiva-Prabhuce-Caritra), better known as Sabhasad Bakhar, is a Marathi language biography of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire. It was written by Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad at Jinji,{{cite book |author=Jagadish Narayan Sarkar |title=History of history writing in medieval India |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12225 |year=1977 |publisher=Ratna |page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12225/page/n30 6] }} at the court of Shivaji's son Rajaram in 1697.{{cite book |author=James W. Laine |title=Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India |url=https://archive.org/details/shivajihinduking0000lain |url-access=registration |year=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-566771-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/shivajihinduking0000lain/page/21 21] }}

The text describes several notable events in Shivaji's life, including Shivaji's killing of Afzal Khan, his visit to and escape from the Mughal court, his coronation, and his meeting with Venkoji.{{cite book |author=K. Ayyappa Paniker |title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA378 |year=1997 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-0365-5 |pages=377–378}} Since the author was a contemporary of Shivaji, it is considered the most reliable bakhar about the king's life.{{cite book |author=Richard Maxwell Eaton |title=The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2F9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |year=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-6815-5 |page=184 }}

The [https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/196174216674_10157030513711675.pdf Siva Chhatrapati volume] is the English translation of the Sabhasad Bakhar. {{Cite book |last=Sabhasada |first=Krshnaji Ananta |url=https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/196174216674_10157030513711675.pdf |title=Siva Chhatrapati: Being a Translation of Sabhasad Bakhar With Extracts From Chitnis and Sivadigvijya, With Notes |last2=Sen |first2=Surendra Nath |publisher=University of Calcutta |year=1920 |location=Calcutta, India |language=English}}