Bipradas Pipilai was a 15th-century poet. He was the son of Mukunda Pipilai, the family hailed fromBaduria-Batagram in24 Parganas, now in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.[1]
He was one of the poets who contributed to theManasamangal genre of poems in praise of the serpent-goddess,Manasa.[2][3] So far, three of his manuscripts have been discovered. Initially, an incomplete version of his work was edited and published byHaraprasad Shastri in 1897 based on two manuscripts discovered till then. In 1953, a complete version of the text was edited and published bySukumar Sen under the titleVipradāsa's Manasā-Vijaya[4] as a part of theBibliotheca Indica series of theAsiatic Society, Calcutta. It was based on all three manuscripts.[5] In these manuscripts, the date of his work is found as 1417Saka era (1495-96).[6] Bijay Gupta of Barisal wrote hisManasamangal at around the same time.[1]
Bipradas is particularly well known for his vivid description of the journeys of the merchantChand Sadagar, giving details ofSaptagram and the lower reaches of theHooghly-Saraswati rivers.[1]