It was discovered in Rampur, and contains interlinear Persian translations. Other Persian manuscripts include the ones copied by Rahimdad Khan of Shahjahanpur (1697) and Abdulla Ahmad Khan Muhammad of Gorakhpur (1695). The Kaithi manuscripts contain a large number of additional verses, and are often incomplete or poorly transcribed. Mataprasad Gupta published a critical edition of the text, based on five different manuscripts, the earliest of which is from the 17th century. Translations and adaptations The earliest known adaptation of Padmavat is Prem Nama' (1590) of Hansa Dakkani, a court poet of Ibrahm Shah of Bijapur Sultanate. Twelve adaptations of Padmavat exist in Persian and Urdu. The most famous of these are Rat-Padam and Shama-wa-parwanah. The Rat-Padam (1618) of Mulla Abdul Shakur or Shaikh Shukrullah Bazmi of Gujarat follows the plot of Padmavat closely, but omits the Sufi symbolism for characters and events. The Shama-wa-parwanah (1658) of Aqil Khan Razi (a governor of Delhi under Aurangzeb) retains the Sufi symbolism. The Bengali epic Padmavati written in the 17th century by Alaol was influenced by this. It inspired a number of novels, plays and poems in 19th-century Bengali literature. It also had Bengali adaptations by Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode in 1906 and Abanindranath Tagore in 1909.Padmavat is the ultimate source of Albert Roussel's opera Padmâvatî (1923). One of the famous Burmese literatures, မင်းကုသနှင့်ပပဝတီ (Minkutha & Papawati) is a loose adaptation of the Padmavati story, being adapted into several versions of theater plays and books. Early cinematic adaptations include the Tamil film Chittoor Rani Padmini (1963) and the Hindi film Maharani Padmini (1964). Padmaavat (2018), a Bollywood Indian film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is based on the Padmavat. Historicity The late medieval Persian historians such as Firishta and Hajiuddabir adapted the Padmavat legend as history, but their accounts suffer from inconsistencies. The later Rajput bards also adapted and expanded the legend, without consideration to historical facts. Hemratan's Gora Badal Padmini Chaupai (c. 1589 CE) became the first popular Rajput adaptation of the legend. Between 16th and 18th centuries, more Rajput versions of the Padmavati legend were compiled in present-day Rajasthan, under the patronage of the Rajput chiefs. Most medieval histories written after Firishta (16th century), including the 18th century Bahrulamvaj, mention the Padmavati episode. The close resemblances in the various legendary narratives about Padmavati indicate that all these accounts are based on Jaisi's Padmavat. Niccolao Manucci also mentions the story in his Storia