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The Anar Pari, or Pomegranate Fairy is an Indian folktale collected by Alice Elizabeth Dracott from Simla. The tale is a local form of tale type ATU 408, " The Love for Three Oranges ", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index .
Book cover of Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. Academic folkloristic research into and the collecting of the large corpus of Punjabi folktales began during the colonial-era by Britishers, such as Flora Annie Steel's three papers on her studies of local Punjabi folktales (1880), with a translation of three fables into English, [2] Richard Carnac Temple's The Legends of the Punjab (1884 ...
Sohinder Singh Wanjara Bedi (1924-2001) was a Punjabi folklorist and a British Indian born in Sialkot, a city now part of Pakistan. [1] [2]His story Sunth te Haldi became popular and since 1992 it is included in 5th class punjabi textbook of Punjab school Education board.
The queen dismisses as another ruby that can be found in the king's treasury and places it on a shelf. Some time later, the ruby becomes a human baby that the queen passes off as her own son and introduces him to the king. The story explains that the ruby was actually a boy whose mother is a div and father belongs to the pari race. Around the ...
Sohni Mahiwal [a] (Punjabi: [soː(ɦ)ɳiː məɦĩʋaːl]) or Suhni Mehar [b] is a traditional Punjabi–Sindhi folk tragedy. Set in central Sindh or northern Punjab, depending upon the version of the tragedy, the folktale depicts the separation of two lovers and their tragic demise. In Sindh, it is one of the seven popular tragic romances of ...
Ahmad Shah Gujjar, commonly known as Ahmad Gujjar, was a 17th-century Punjabi poet during the regime of the Mughal emperor Jahandar Shah. He was the first Punjabi-Muslim writer to create a poetic version of the famous Hir-Ranjha story. [1] [2] His book, "Hir Ahonad", offered a unique twist on the tale, differing from earlier writer Damodar's ...
Afarin Lahori, Faqirullah Afarin Lahori or commonly known as Afarin, (Punjabi: آفرین لاہوری۔, c. 1660 – d. 1741) was a Punjabi poet from Lahore. He wrote many books during his lifetime of 81 years, especially remembered for his romantic epic poem, "Nāz o nīāz", also known as Hīr o Ranǰha in which he wrote the traditional Punjabi story of Heer and Ranjha, who lives in Takht ...
He wrote the qissa Heer and Ranjha (ہیر رانجھے دا قصہ) and was the first to put the story to pen, adapted from a preexisting and circulating legend. [5] [6] [1] He claims to be the eye witness of this tale. His Qissa (story) is deemed the oldest and the first Heer Ranjha in Punjabi literature. [1]