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Padmāvatī

work by Jāyasī

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Hindi literature

In South Asian arts: Hindi
…also is the religious epic Padmāvatī by Jāyasī, a Muslim from former Oudh state. Written in Awadhi (c. 1540), the epic is composed according to the conventions of Sanskrit poetics.
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Indo-Aryan literature

In Indo-Aryan literature
…story of the Rajput heroine Padmavati, originally a romance, was beautifully recorded, with a Sufi (mystic) twist, by 16th-century Hindi Muslim poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi and later by 17th-century Bengali Muslim poet Alaol.
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