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Rani Padmavati, also known as Padmini was a legendary Indian queen of Medapata kingdom in 13-14th century. Rani Padmavati was the queen of Chittor, renowned across Indian land for her bewitching beauty. She was the second wife of Rawal Ratan Singh and the daughter of the contemporary Sinhala King Gandharvsen, according to the epic ‘Padmavat’. On this Article • • • • • • • • • • • 10 Facts about Rani Padmavati (Padmini) Rani Padmini spent her life in Sinhala under the care of her father Gandharvsen and mother Champavati. She had a grand life with radiates nothing but the tales of her beauty, smartness, and bravery. 1. A myth or a legend Many historians still debate over, whether the story of Rani Padmavati is factual or fictional. Most historians claim that Padmavati was just a legend and there is no reliable proof of her existence. They say that the Rajput queen was a figment of poet Jayasi’s fanciful imagination. She was first referenced in the epic ‘Padmavat’, written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi. However, she is a legendary figure and over years, she has become a historical figure too. 2. Rani Padmavati was a princess of Sri Lanka Padmavati was a princess of Singhal kingdom which was in Sri Lanka. In the descriptions in the poem Padmavat, the beautiful Padmini is shown to be the princess of a kingdom named Simhala-Dvipa, which is the island of present-day Sri Lanka. 3. A Talking Parrot – Hira-mani Padmavati had a pet, who was her closest compatriot. Jayasi writes that Padma...

BY Devarsi Ghosh If you do not believe that Ranveer Singh in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming Padmavati and Om Puri in Shyam Benegal’s 1980s television series Bharat Ek Khoj are both playing Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khilji, you are forgiven. Singh’s Khilji appears to be a frontier savage who snarls maniacally when he is not wrestling bare-bodied or devouring meat like it is his last meal. Puri plays Khilji like a practical statesman who spends his days consulting his ministers to find ways to tax the rich, fix the prices of grains, and allocate more resources to his armies. While the Khilji of Padmavati likes to be semi-clothed in furs and would look more at home in Essos from Game of Thrones than 14th century Delhi, Puri’s Khilji is always dressed in royal garb and appears to have leapt out of the history books. These two characters share but a name, and are as similar as the sun and the moon. The different approaches draw from the same source material: Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s sixteenth-century epic poem Padmavat. Right in the beginning of the second and final Bharat Ek Khoj episode in which Khilji appears, the narrator (also Om Puri) reminds audiences that the saga of Rajput valour described in Padmavat is illustrative of the traditions of the time and not of historical accuracy. Khilji appears in episodes 25 and 26 of Bharat Ek Khoj, which was telecast on Doordarshan in 1988 and 1989. The episodes form the concluding chapters of the three-part Delhi Sultanate segm...