Reading Jayasi's Padmavat
Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote Padmavat in Awadhi around 1540, with forms like अहै that village speech still keeps.
How It Works
Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote Padmavat around 1540, earlier than the Ramcharitmanas. It is a long poem about love and loss. Jayasi was a Sufi poet from the Awadhi region.
Its verse uses the same chaupai and doha forms as the Manas. The language is old Awadhi with some words from Persian, but the grammar is Awadhi.
| Word | Where you meet it |
|---|---|
| अहै | in Padmavat and in village speech today |
| कहँ, महँ | in the poem, not in everyday speech |
| कीन्ह | in the poem; speech says किहिस |
That overlap helps a learner: some lines will feel familiar at once, and others will need the old-ending entries.
Manuscripts of the poem exist in more than one script, and printed editions today are often in Devanagari.
Examples (4)
- मलिक मुहम्मद जायसी पद्मावत अवधी मा लिखिन।
Malik Muhammad Jayasi wrote Padmavat in Awadhi.
लिखिन is the respect form.
- पद्मावत एक लंबी प्रेम कथा अहै।
Padmavat is a long love story.
अहै is the same form speech uses today.
- पद्मावत मा अहै मिलत अहै, अउर गाँव कै लोग आजु भी अहै कहत अहैं।
Padmavat has अहै written in it, and villagers still say अहै today.
The sentence shows a form that did not die out.
- आजु भी विद्यार्थी पद्मावत पढ़त अहैं।
Students read Padmavat even today.
पढ़त अहैं is the everyday present.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Padmavat is the second old Awadhi poem you read, and it keeps forms like अहै.
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