Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Shahaji" in English language version.
Sir J. N. Sarkar has categorised it as one of the later biographies or 'bogus bakhars*, which 'mostly copies the Sabhasad Bakhar and padded it out with Sanskrit quotations, miracles, rhetorical flourishes, commonplaces remarks, and details imagined from the probabilities of the case, and in some cases also forged letters'.