Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Your Padmawat Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Your Padmawat
Dealing with the rani of Chittor
In a tell-tale story form
The matter of debate
Years after
When you are no more

Your Padmavat,
Padmawat
Dealing with
Rani Padmavati, Alauddin Khilji and Ratan Singha.

A Rajput queen,
A Muslim invader
And a yearning so different.

How to tell,
Tell it,
Jayasi?

Rani Padmavati a Rajput princess
Of the kattar Rajputs
While on the other Alauddin a Muhammadan invader
After Padmavati?

How can it be, how can it be,
Jayasi,
Return you with the parrot
Telling a story?

Let Alauddin too return
As the case is nothing different
From that of Dr.Faustus and Othello.