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    Mrigavati by Shakya Qutban Suhrawardi

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    1. The document discusses Sufi romances or prema-kahani, a genre of love stories written by Muslim poets in northern India between the 14th-19th centuries. 2. It provides context on the Sultanate of Jaunpur, one such regional kingdom that emerged after the Delhi Sultanate, and cultivated new artistic and literary styles through royal patronage under rulers like Husayn Shah Sharqi. 3. The excerpt summarizes the plot of a typical prema-kahani, following a prince who sees a magical doe and builds a palace by the lake where he saw her, ultimately describing the romance's heroine Mirigavati in an elaborate poetic passage.

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    1. The document discusses Sufi romances or prema-kahani, a genre of love stories written by Muslim poets in northern India between the 14th-19th centuries. 2. It provides context on the Sultanate of Jaunpur, one such regional kingdom that emerged after the Delhi Sultanate, and cultivated new artistic and literary styles through royal patronage under rulers like Husayn Shah Sharqi. 3. The excerpt summarizes the plot of a typical prema-kahani, following a prince who sees a magical doe and builds a palace by the lake where he saw her, ultimately describing the romance's heroine Mirigavati in an elaborate poetic passage.

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    1. The document discusses Sufi romances or prema-kahani, a genre of love stories written by Muslim poets in northern India between the 14th-19th centuries. 2. It provides context on the Sultanate of Jaunpur, one such regional kingdom that emerged after the Delhi Sultanate, and cultivated new artistic and literary styles through royal patronage under rulers like Husayn Shah Sharqi. 3. The excerpt summarizes the plot of a typical prema-kahani, following a prince who sees a magical doe and builds a palace by the lake where he saw her, ultimately describing the romance's heroine Mirigavati in an elaborate poetic passage.

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    Mrigavati by Shakya Qutban Suhrawardi

    SUFI ROMANCES OR PREMA KAHANI

    1. Example of powerful indo-islamic literary tradition


    2. In courts, bazars, shrines, salons
    3. Genre- prema-kahani or ‘love-story’ in Hindavi
    4. By Muslim poets – members of Persian-speaking elite of Delhi & regional sultanates
    5. Sufi romances written and performed from origin in late 14th cen – 19th cen
    6. product of religious encounter of sufi in eastern province of delhi sultanate
    7. in 1896, Sir Grierson + Pandit Dwivedi published Jayasi’s Padmavat. In decades that
    followed, 5 more prema kahanis published

    SULTANATE OF JAUNPUR

    After the Tughluqs, The Sayyid and Lodi dynasties ruled from Delhi and Agra until 1526. By then,
    Jaunpur, Bengal, Malwa, Gujarat, Rajasthan and the entire south India had independent rulers who
    established flourishing states and prosperous capitals. This was also the period which saw the
    emergence of new ruling groups like the Afghans and the Rajputs. Some of the states established in
    this period were small but powerful and extremely well administered. Sher Shah Sur (1540-1545)
    started his career as the manager of a small territory for his uncle in Bihar and eventually challenged
    and defeated the Mughal emperor Humayun.
    READING:- SULTANATE OF JAUNPUR

     Delhi became imp in 12th century


     Invasion of Timur in 1398 resulted in end of Tughluq dynasty. After Tughluqs, Sayyad and
    Lodi Dynasty could not assume sovereignty over rulers.
     Jaunpur Sultanate – founded by Malik Sarwar, Sharqi dynasty who served Tughluqs.
     When regional sultanates came into prominence such as Malwa, Gijarat, Jaunpur, Bengal
    and Deccani states, new courtly artistic, literary and performance development
     These new kingdoms invented (purpose of state-formation & legitimisation)  regional
    artistic & literary styles out of Islam culture of Delhi Sultanate and local lang + media
     Husayn Shah Sharqi (Jaunpur) – poet, patron of Sharqi architecture, musician (credited for
    Raga Jaunpuri).
     Qutban – poet to Husayn Shah’s court in exile, dedicated MRIGAVATI to him
     Qutban disciple of Shaykh Buddhan, whom he mentions as his spiritual preceptor in
    prologue
     Identity of Shaykh Buddhan = eldest one unknown as it’s a common name so diff scholars
    have diff theories

    SUMMARY OF PREMAKHAYAN

    At the beginning of the romance, the Prince is out hunting in a forest. He sees far off in the distance
    the glimmering shade of a seven-coloured doe, and decides to follow it. The doe lures him on, but
    then disappears into a magic lake in the forest. Although the Prince jumps into the lake to find her,
    she disappears completely and he is left lamenting. He climbs out and sits weeping inconsolably by
    the lake, where his companions find him. He will not return to court with them, and sits by the lake
    meditating on the vision he has seen. His father builds a splendid red-and-gold palace for him by the
    lakeside, a palace embellished with gilding, carving, and murals with scenes from the epics and story
    literature. When his nurse comes to comfort the Prince, he describes what he has seen by the
    lakeside. His response is the poetic set-piece of the sarapa or nakh-shikh-varnana, a head-to-foot
    description of Mirigavati, the heroine of the romance. Among Sufi reading communities, these
    passages were interpreted as ultimately referring to the beauty and kindness of Allah (jamal) or his
    might and majesty (jalal). The poet repeatedly stresses the inability of words to signify what the
    Prince has seen, so that his concrete poetic description serves as an analogy for a spiritual or
    supernatural vision.

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