Padmawat, Padmavati Of Chittor Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Malik Muhammad Jaysi,
Your Padmavat,
You telling with a parrot and a Rajput princess!

Your Padmavat
Written in a Sufiana andaz,
Why to debate and discuss historical facts?

A Pir, a Sufi saint
You saw India, Hinduism
And tried to mingle it with Islam!

Jayasi, your Padmawat
An epic historical
With the Rajput princess of Rajpuatana!

The princess of Chittor,
The Rajput queen Padmavati
Exquisitely beautiful.

Oh, ravishingly beautiful Padmavati
Whose glimpse
Alauddin would have dreamt stealthily!

Alauddin like Dr.Faustus would
Have dreamt of the kiss of Helen
Drowning a thousand ships of Troy!

But why was Alauddin mad after,
Who can but say it,
Had Alauddin no beautiful begum, rani?

Nagamati and Padmavat asking the parrot
As for who is more beautiful,
The first or the latter?

Is Padmavat a Rajput queen
In the ghunghata
Or jewellery glorifying whole of Rajputana?

Or, really Alauddin tried to peep into
The room of Padmavat,
Who could but say it?

Something of phobia may be it
In the story
As for foreign invasions and alien treatment.

The mirrors, were there mirrors int that age
That the face was shown to him,
The reflection of Padmavat?

Suspense and suspicion lurked in
While viewing Alauddin
Which she might have suspected.

Padmavati felt it
Or Ratansen
Or the people of Rajputana?

Rani Padmavati of the Rajputs,
The die-hard chivalrous, military class Rajputs
Would not compromise with.

Alauddin see the reflection and retreat back,
How can Padmavat be yours,
The rani of someone?

If backtrack you not, she will commit suicide,
Suicide,
Alauddin!

Why to be after Padmavati,
There are many whom you can
Alauddin from Persia, Arabia?

A kattar, orthodox, sword-wielding Rajput,
You do not, Alauddin,
Why to eye the other's queen?