Medieval Literature.
Kritta Vasa wrote Ramayana in Bengali and
tradition of writing bhakti songs began with
Medieval Literature brought about major saint Chaitanyas.
changes in the languages in India. In the Narsinh mehta wrote in Gujarati and Saint
beginning of Medeival age the language was Namdev and Eknath in Marathi.
Sanskrit in North India. SOmdeva’s A Kashmiri ruler Zaiunlabidin translated
Kathasarit Sagar and Kalhana’s Rajtarangini many Sanskrit works along with Rajtarangini
are the first historical books of India Kashmir. and Mahabharata into Persian
And Jaydeva’s Geet Govind was one of the In VIjaynagar Raja Krishnadevrai the
finest poems of Sanskrit literature. great king and also a Telugu writer wrote
This was the period when Apabhrams Amukt Malayd
languages has started taking forms of Mughal Literature: Babar wrote Tazuk e
modern Indian languages like Hindi where Babar in Turkish which was translated into
Prithviraj Raso by Chandbardai is the earliest persian as Babarnama
marking heroics of Prithviraj Chauhan Gulbadan Begam sister of Humayun wrote
In South India Sanskrit language took a Humayun-nama, Jahangir wrote Tazuk-e-
great stride where Jainism influenced Jahangiri. Aurangzeb and Bahadur Shah
Kannada literature for sometime. Zafar were also prominent poets
The trio of Early Kannada literature, Hindi literature made great progress in
Pampa- Composed Adipuran and Vikramarjun Akbar’s reign. Tulsidas, and Surdas wrote
Vijayant, in this period. Keshavdas wrote on Love and
Ponna wrote Shantipuran describing life of separation and Rahim’s dohas are still
16th Jain tirthankar and popular.
Ranna composed Ajitnath Puran and Gada Apart form this Ain-e-Akbari and Akbarnama
Yudh by Abdul Fazl giving details of Indian customs
Poet Kamban wrote Ramayana in Tamil traditions are famous. Faizi, Abdul Fazl’s
language Brother translated many Sanskrit works into
Development of Indian languages got Persian. Sanskrit works like Mahabharata,
promotion in Delhi sultanate with two Ramayana, Bhagwad Gita, Panchtantra, the
forms of Delhi language: Khadi boli and Brij Atharvaveda were translated during this
Bhasha. time.
Many heroic works were created in The most prominent development was
Rajasthani language which is similar to development of Urdu language. And it soon
Hindi and Gujarati, of them heroics of ALha, developed into one of the richest modern
Udal and VIsaldev Raso are famous. languages of India. it produced many great
Chandrayan by Mulla Dawood is the oldest poets like Wali, Mir Dard, Mir Taki Mir, Nazir
book of Awadhi language. Akbarabadi, Abdullakhan, Galib, Iqbal and
But critical appreciation was still written in others.
Sanskrit. Muhammad Hussain Azaads Darbar-e-Akbari
Persian was the language of court of in one of the best works of Urdu.
Delhi sultanate.
Tarikh-e Firozshahi and Fatwa e Jahangiri in
Persian language by Turkish writer Ziauddin
Barani give total details about Indian History.
The most outstanding fugure of that Period
was Aamir Khusro, a disciple of Nizamuddin
Aulia.
He wrote Ashiqua, Nah, Sipihar, KIratul
Sadayan, and Khazian Ul Futuh.
He considered Hindwali as his mother tongue
and took great pride in being an Indian
Due to great impetus of regional Kings
Bhakti saints preached in local languages
out of which Bhojpuri and Awadhi were major
dialect. And Kabir was one of the great
poets. Most of his works were in Sadhukhadi.
Malik Mahummad Zayasi wrote Padmawat in
Awadhi. Ramcharit Manas by Tulsidas was
also written in Awadhi
