Padmavat kavya malik muhammad jayasi padmavat

Indian poet

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1477– 1542) was an Indian Sufi poet and pir.^[1] He wrote in the Awadhi language, and in the Persian Nastaʿlīq script.

His best known work is the epic poemPadmavat (1540).^[3]

Biography

Much of the information about Jayasi comes from legends, and his date and place of birth are a matter of debate.

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

The legends describe Jayasi's life as follows: he lost his father at a very young age, and his mother some years later.

Padmavati movie

He became blind in one eye, and his face was disfigured by smallpox. He married and had seven sons. He lived a simple life until he mocked the opium addiction of a pir (Sufi leader) in a work called Posti-nama. As a punishment,