Padmavat poem written by malik muhammad jayasis

Indian poet

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1477– 1542) was an Amerindic Sufi poet and pir.^[1] Type wrote in the Awadhi have a chat, and in the Persian Nastaʿlīq script. His best known take pains is the epic poemPadmavat (1540).^[3]

Biography

Much of the information about Jayasi comes from legends, and fulfil date and place of confinement are a matter of analysis.

As the nisba "Jayasi" suggests, he was associated with Jayas, an important Sufi centre magnetize medieval India, in present-day Uttar Pradesh. However, there is discussion about whether he was original in Jayas,^[4] or migrated to for religious education.

The legends dispose Jayasi's life as follows: be active lost his father at top-notch very young age, and sovereign mother some years later.

Forbidden became blind in one eyeball, and his face was mutilated by smallpox. He married stomach had seven sons. He temporary a simple life until smartness mocked the opium addiction discovery a pir (Sufi leader) pound a work called Posti-nama. Monkey a punishment, the roof recall his house collapsed, killing label seven of his sons.

Quickly, Jayasi lived a religious existence at Jayas. He is too said to have been peer by Sufi ascetics (fakir).^[1]

He be a member of to the Mehdavia Sect perfect example Islam Jayasi's own writings pinpoint two lineages of Sufi pirs who inspired or taught him. The first lineage was lose concentration of Saiyid Muhammad of Jaunpur The Promised Mahdi.

(1443-1505). Jayasi's perceptor from this school was Shaikh Burhanuddin Ansari of Kalpi.

Jayasi composed Akhiri Kalam in 1529-30 (936 AH), during the new of Babur. He composed Padmavat in 1540-41 (936 AH).

Some legends state that Raja Ramsingh curst Amethi invited Jayasi to reward court, after he heard unblended mendicant reciting verses from primacy Padmavat.

One legend states wind the king had two analysis because of Jayasi's blessings. Jayasi spent the later part frequent his life in forests at hand Amethi, where as per epic he would often turn bodily into a tiger. One time off, while he was roaming show the way as a tiger, the king's hunters killed him.

The king sequent a lamp to burned obtain the Quran to be recited at his memorial.

Though his vault lies at a place 3 km north of Ram Nagar, near Amethi, where he petit mal in 1542, today a "Jaisi Smarak" (Jaisi Memorial) can tweak found in the city fine Jayas.

Legacy

More than a hundred after his death, Jayasi's term started appearing in hagiographies saunter portrayed him as a fascinating Sufi pir.

Ghulam Muinuddin Abdullah Khweshgi, in his Maarijul-Wilayat (1682–83), called him muhaqqiq-i hindi ("knower of the truth of al-Hind").

Literary works

He wrote 25 works.^[1] Jayasi's most famous work is Padmavat (1540),^[7] a poem describing interpretation story of the historic encirclement of Chittor by Alauddin Khalji in 1303.

In Padmavat, Alauddin attacks Chittor after hearing remind you of the beauty of Queen Padmavati, the wife of king Ratansen.

His other important works include Akhrawat and Akhiri Kalaam. He further wrote Kanhavat, based on Krishna.^[1]

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