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The Panji tales are a cycle of Javanese stories, centred around the legendary prince of the same name (actually a title) from East Java, Indonesia.Along with the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the tales are the basis of various poems, sculpture and painting, dance-drama performances and genres of wayang (shadow puppetry), especially the one known in East and Central Java as wayang gedhog (the ...
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 ...
Sindhi folklore (Sindhi: لوڪ ادب) is composed of folk traditions which have developed in Sindh over many centuries.Sindh thus possesses a wealth of folklore, including such well-known components as the traditional Watayo Faqir tales, the legend of Moriro, the epic tale of Dodo Chanesar and material relating to the hero Marui, imbuing it with its own distinctive local colour or flavour in ...
The Fan of Patience (Urdu: Sabr ka pankha) is a Pakistani fairy tale from Punjab, published by Pakistani author Shafi Aqeel and translated into English by writer Ahmad Bashir. It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named Sobur ( Arabic : "Patience"), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan . [ 1 ]
The reign of Harisimhadeva was considered a landmark point in the history of Mithila with many events taking place during his four-decade rule. He introduced many social changes such as the four-class system for Maithil Brahmins and developed the Panji system. [7] The scholars that thronged his courts left a permanent imprint on Mithila. [8]
This story was adapted from the Javanese Panji tales, and the Hikayat Hang Tuah story can be concluded as a mere myth. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Because the Mendam Berahi was a fairly large ship, it has often been used as evidence for the Malays' proficiency in shipbuilding by modern Malaysian scholars and politicians, [ 18 ] to the point that many ...
Panjis or Panji Prabandh, genealogical records maintained among Maithil Brahmins and Karna Kayasthas of Mithila region of north Bihar, India; Raden Panji, a Javanese title used by noblemen from Pasuruan Regency; Panjika or Panji, a Hindu astronomical almanac
A fact from Panji tales appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July ...