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== Versions of the legend == | == Versions of the legend == | ||
[[File:Rani padmini.png|thumb|upright|[[Rani Padmini]]]] | |||
Several 16th-century texts survive that offer varying accounts of Rani Padmini's life.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|pp=2-3, Quote: "Multiple narratives of Padmini of Chitor first emerged in the sixteenth century, and survived over the next four centuries."}} Of these, the earliest is the [[Awadhi language]] ''[[Padmavat]]'' (1540 CE) of the Sufi composer [[Malik Muhammad Jayasi]], likely composed originally in the Persian script.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|pp=2, 9}} The 14th-century accounts written by Muslim court historians that describe Alauddin Khalji's 1302 CE conquest of [[Chittorgarh]] make no mention of this queen.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|p=4}} Jain texts between 14th and 16th century – Nabinandan Jenudhar, Chitai Charitra and Rayan Sehra have mentioned Rani Padmini.<ref name=TOI_1>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/khilji-did-not-attack-chittor-for-padmini/articleshow/57154581.cms|title="Khilji did not attack Chittor for Padmini"|date=2017-02-15|work=The Times of India}}</ref> | Several 16th-century texts survive that offer varying accounts of Rani Padmini's life.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|pp=2-3, Quote: "Multiple narratives of Padmini of Chitor first emerged in the sixteenth century, and survived over the next four centuries."}} Of these, the earliest is the [[Awadhi language]] ''[[Padmavat]]'' (1540 CE) of the Sufi composer [[Malik Muhammad Jayasi]], likely composed originally in the Persian script.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|pp=2, 9}} The 14th-century accounts written by Muslim court historians that describe Alauddin Khalji's 1302 CE conquest of [[Chittorgarh]] make no mention of this queen.{{sfn|Ramya Sreenivasan|2007|p=4}} Jain texts between 14th and 16th century – Nabinandan Jenudhar, Chitai Charitra and Rayan Sehra have mentioned Rani Padmini.<ref name=TOI_1>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/khilji-did-not-attack-chittor-for-padmini/articleshow/57154581.cms|title="Khilji did not attack Chittor for Padmini"|date=2017-02-15|work=The Times of India}}</ref> | ||