Malik Muhammad Jayasi

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"Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply..."; an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat, c1750
"Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply..."; an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat, c1750

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (Hindi: मलिक मोहम्मद जायसी) (1477 - 1542) was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi.

He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Though his tomb lies in a place, 3 km north of Ram Nagar, near Amethi, where he died in 1542.

Today, a "Jaisi Samarak" (Jaisi Memorial) can be found in the city of Jais.

[edit] Literary works

His most famous work is Padmavat (1540), a poem describing the story of the historic seige of Chittor by Alauddin Khilji in 1303 AD, who attacked Chittor after hearing of the beauty of queen Rani Padmini, the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh [1].

His other important works are: Akhrawat and Akhiri Kalaam.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Padmavat The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, v. 2, p. 430.

[edit] External links

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