The Sufi and court poet Malik Muhammad ‘Jayasi’ composed the Padmāvat in 1540 in the milieu of the Afghan Sher Shah Suri’s north Indian sultanate. He drew on the tradition of the prem-akhyān or epic romance in northeastern Hindi that began with Maulana Daud’s Candāyan in 1379.

In these texts, the hero’s struggle to be united with the heroine is read as an allegory to the struggle of the individual soul (nafs) to unite with God, but it should be noted that the narrative is also to be enjoyed in the manner of a literary work, the enjoyment of which leads to the experience of śṛṅgār or prem-rasa. The ability to experience the aesthetic sentiment of love in such narratives is understood as a prerequisite for being able to experience love for God.

पाठ : मालिक मुहम्मद जायसी कृत पद्मावत

Verse 24: in this verse, the poet summarizes the plot of his epic poem, and has a few things to say about love.
२४ सन नौ सै सैंतालिस – the year 947
अहै – है
अरंभ – आरंभ – beginning
बैन – words, speech
कहै – कहते हैं, present subjunctive
सिंघल दीप – the island of Sinhala, Sri Lanka.
पदुमिनी रानी – Queen Padmini
रतनसेनि – Ratansen, oblique
चितउर गढ़ – Chittorgarh, in Rajasthan
आनी – आई
अलाउदीं – Allauddin Khilji
राघौ चेतन – Proper name – Raghav Chetan
कीन्ह – किया
बखानू – description or praise
साहि – Shahi, referring here to Khilji
गढ़ – fort
छेंका – to confiscate or take away
तुरुकहिं – Turk, oblique
भई – हुई
लराई – लड़ाई
आदि – beginning
जसि – जैसे
कथ्था – कथा
लिखि – लिखना absolutive
चौपाई – name of the metre
बिआस – विकास?
कौंला – lotus (कमल)
निअर – near
भा – है
काँटा – thorn
गुर – jaggery
चाँटा – चींटा – ant
भँवर – bees
बनखंड – forest
हुति – होकर?
लेहि – from लेना, लेकर, absolutive
बास – smell or fragrance
दादुर – frog
पावहिं – पाना, subjunctive future
आछहिं – आना? subjunctive future

Verse 25: in this verse, the poet describes the island of Sinhala (Sri Lanka).
गावौ – perfective? Here first person? गाना
बरनि – वर्णन
सुनावौं – सुनाना; first person
बतनक – बरनत?
दरपन – mirror
भाँति – like, manner
बिसेखा – to see, saw
जेहिं – यही?
तैसेइ – तैसे
घनि – heavy?
जहँ – जहाँ
नारी – woman
दइअ – देव/दैव – god, divine
अवतारी – incarnation, fem.
ओहि – वह, उसको
सरि – equal, similar
जोगू – योग
तस – तैसा
उजिआर – उजाला – bright
पारा – to cross
परिछाहीं – shadow
कुसस्थल – कुस: sacred grass, so by extension a sacred place?
आरन – आरण्य? Or as in आर-पार
महुस्थल – महास्थल
परथमैं – प्रथम
उत्तिम – उत्तम

Verse 119: in this verse, the poet describes what happens to the hero, Ratansen, when he hears the beauty of the heroine Padmini described by Hiraman the parrot.

सुनतहि – to listen
राजा – king
मुरुछाई  – faint
जानँहु – to know
लहरि – waves
सूरज – sun
घाव – wound, indication
समुंद – ocean
बिसँभारा – poisonous
भंवर  – storm
भाँवरि – emtion
खिन- खिन – sadness
हिलरोहि – to cry
निसास – breath
क्षन – ebb
चेतना – consciousness
बौराई – badness
मरन – death
बेवस्था – situation
दसहँ – terrible
लेनिहारन्ह – harmful
हरहिं – everyone
तरासहि – still
त्रास – trouble
त्राहि – thirsty

Verse 318: in this verse, the poet describes the explosive love-making of Ratansen and Padmini when they finally quench the fire of virah (separation) after their wedding. 

(in progress)

जूझि — fighting, war

जस — जैसा

रावन — chief demon

सेज — bed

बिधंसि — to pierce OR not having wealth

बिरह — ?

टुटा — ?

संग्रामा — battle, fight, struggle

लीन्ह — किया

कंचन — doing the hair

ग्ढ — stronghold, castle

सिंगार — adornment, sexual love

अहा — interjection, exclamation of pleasure

मैमंत –?

बिधंसा — ?

बिचला — to cause to move

बिरह — a song of separation, lament

जीव — life, soul

नंसा — ?

भेसा —

छूटी — freed

मंग — head of boat

भंग — to be broken, to be found wanting

भे –?

कंचुकि — a woman’s jacket

चुर — crunching or crackling sound

ताने — to taunt, to ridicule

मोंति — a pearl

छहराने — scattered, dispersed

सलोनी — (name)

बांहू — the upper arm

कंगन — bangle, of precious metal

खलाईं — to voice inner thoughts

फूटी — scattered, dispersed

बेसरि — a small heavy nose-ring

तिलक — mark made on the forehead of newly engaged bridegroom

गा — Ganges?

मेंटी — a small earthen pot or pitcher

पुहुप — flower

संवारि — preparation, arrangement

जोबन — a young woman’s breasts // the vigor of youth

नवल — new, novel

बसंत — spring

अरगज — a perfume, yellowish in color

जेउं — ?

हिय —  heart

मरगज — crushed, squeezed (as in the body in embrace)

कंत — lover, dear husband