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The proper noun Padmāvatī may refer to any of the following:

• Padmāvatī, Hindu goddess and consort of Sri Venkateshwara of Tirupati

• Another name for the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa

• Padmavati (Jainism), Jain goddess

• Rani Padmini, the queen of Chittor and the wife of 14th century King Rawal Ratan Singh, celebrated in Padmavat.

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's immortal Swapna Vāsavadattam (one of 13 classical Sanskrit works rediscovered in the archives of an ancient Kerala temple in 1912 AD)

• Padmavat, a celebrated ballad written in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, a 16th century Indian Sufi poet, about Rani Padmini

• Padmāvatī, the name of the heroine in the eponymous Bengali novel written by Alaol in the 17th century AD

• Padmâvatî (opera), the title of an opera by French composer Albert Roussel

Places

• An obscure principality in Central India of that name in ancient India, known for having been overrun in the 4th century AD by Samudragupta of the Gupta empire

See also:

• Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, a university in Tirupati named after the Hindu goddess

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