 Ghulam Muinuddin Abdullah Khweshgi, in his "Maarijul-Wilayat" (1682–83), called him "muhaqqiq-i hindi" ("knower of the truth of al-Hind").He wrote 25 works.Jayasi's most famous work is "Padmavat" (1540), a poem describing the story of the historic siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khalji in 1303.