The proper noun
Padmāvatī may refer to any of the following:
- Padmāvatī
Alamelu also known as Alamelmanga and Padmavati , is a Hindu devi. Believed to be a form of Lakshmi, the Hindu devi of wealth and good fortune, Alamelu is the consort of Sri Venkateshwara...
, Hindu goddess and consort of Sri Venkateshwara of Tirupati
- Another name for the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa
Manasa is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity. Manasa is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nāgas and wife of sage Jagatkāru...
- Padmavati (Jainism)
The demi-goddess Padmavati is very popular amongst Jains. Padmavati is the main deity at Humacha, the famous Jain pilgrim centre.Padmavati is different from Lakshmi. Legend has it that Padmavati and her husband Dharanendra were the king and queen of snakes in a previous birth, where their lives...
, Jain goddess
- Rani Padmini
Rani Padmini was the queen of Chittor and the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh. Her story has been immortalized in Padmavat, an epic poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language In the year 1540....
, the queenA queen regnant is a qualifying reference to a female monarch possessing and exercising all of the monarchical powers of a ruler, in contrast to a "queen consort", who is the wife of a male reigning as monarch and who is without any official powers of state.In Ancient Egypt, Pacific cultures, and...
of ChittorChittorgarh is a city and amunicipality in Rajasthan state of western India. It lies on the Berach River, a tributary of the Banas, and is the administrative headquarters of Chittorgharh District and a former capital of the Sisodia clans of Rajput and of Mewar.Fiercely independent, the fort of...
and the wife of 14th century King Rawal Ratan SinghRawal Ratan Singh was the 42nd ruler of Mewar, a state that then covered part of the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He ruled from 1302-03 AD. Singh was a rajput belonging to the Sisodia clan.-Wars:...
, celebrated in PadmavatPadmavat is an epic poem written In 1540 by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language. It is the first important work In Awadhi language.- Theme :...
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Padmāvatī is a common name among Hindu ladies, especially those hailing from south India.
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The proper noun
Padmāvatī may refer to any of the following:
- Padmāvatī
Alamelu also known as Alamelmanga and Padmavati , is a Hindu devi. Believed to be a form of Lakshmi, the Hindu devi of wealth and good fortune, Alamelu is the consort of Sri Venkateshwara...
, Hindu goddess and consort of Sri Venkateshwara of Tirupati
- Another name for the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa
Manasa is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity. Manasa is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nāgas and wife of sage Jagatkāru...
- Padmavati (Jainism)
The demi-goddess Padmavati is very popular amongst Jains. Padmavati is the main deity at Humacha, the famous Jain pilgrim centre.Padmavati is different from Lakshmi. Legend has it that Padmavati and her husband Dharanendra were the king and queen of snakes in a previous birth, where their lives...
, Jain goddess
- Rani Padmini
Rani Padmini was the queen of Chittor and the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh. Her story has been immortalized in Padmavat, an epic poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language In the year 1540....
, the queenA queen regnant is a qualifying reference to a female monarch possessing and exercising all of the monarchical powers of a ruler, in contrast to a "queen consort", who is the wife of a male reigning as monarch and who is without any official powers of state.In Ancient Egypt, Pacific cultures, and...
of ChittorChittorgarh is a city and amunicipality in Rajasthan state of western India. It lies on the Berach River, a tributary of the Banas, and is the administrative headquarters of Chittorgharh District and a former capital of the Sisodia clans of Rajput and of Mewar.Fiercely independent, the fort of...
and the wife of 14th century King Rawal Ratan SinghRawal Ratan Singh was the 42nd ruler of Mewar, a state that then covered part of the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He ruled from 1302-03 AD. Singh was a rajput belonging to the Sisodia clan.-Wars:...
, celebrated in PadmavatPadmavat is an epic poem written In 1540 by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language. It is the first important work In Awadhi language.- Theme :...
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Padmāvatī is a common name among Hindu ladies, especially those hailing from south India. As such, the name is widely found in literature also, for instance:
- Padmāvatī, the name of an important character in Bhasa
Bhāsa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit. However, very little is known about him.Kālidāsa in the introduction to his first play Malavikagnimitram writes -...
's immortal Swapna Vāsavadattam (one of 13 classical Sanskrit works rediscovered in the archives of an ancient Kerala temple in 1912 AD)
- Padmavat
Padmavat is an epic poem written In 1540 by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language. It is the first important work In Awadhi language.- Theme :...
, a celebrated ballad written in the AwadhiAwadhi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken chiefly in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, although its speakers are also found in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Nepal...
dialect of Hindi by Malik Muhammad JayasiMalik Muhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi.He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Bareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh...
, a 16th century Indian Sufi poet, about Rani PadminiRani Padmini was the queen of Chittor and the wife of King Rawal Ratan Singh. Her story has been immortalized in Padmavat, an epic poem written by Malik Muhammad Jayasi In the Awadhi language In the year 1540....
- Padmāvatī, the name of the heroine in the eponymous Bengali novel written by Alaol
Alaol was a medieval poet in Bengal. He is thought to be born around 1607 in Faridpur in the present-day Bangladesh. His most well known work is Padmavati, which depicts the story of Padmavati, the Sinhala princess and the queen of Chittor. There is an important literary prize named after him in...
in the 17th century AD
- Padmâvatî (opera)
Padmâvatî is an opera in two acts by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Louis Laloy, is based on Théodore-Marie Pavie's La légende de Padmanî, reine de Tchitor, which retells the legend recounted in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's poem Padmavat . It was first performed at the Paris Opéra...
, the title of an opera by French composer Albert RousselAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period...
Places
- An obscure principality in Central India of that name in ancient India
Epic India is the depiction of Greater India in the Sanskrit epics, viz. the Mahabharata and the Ramayana as well as Puranic literature ....
, known for having been overrun in the 4th century AD by Samudragupta of the Gupta empire
See also:
- Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam
Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam is a women's university in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established as a state university by the Andhra Pradesh legislature in 1983, named after the goddess Sri Padmavati, the consort of Lord Venkateswara...
, a university in Tirupati named after the Hindu goddess