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The word qissa is an Arabic word meaning epic legend or a folk tale. The Punjabi language is famous for its rich literature of qisse , most of the which are about love, passion, betrayal, sacrifice, social values and a common man's revolt against a larger system.
Jamasp tells the townspeople where Shahmaran lives, according to the legend Shahmaran says, "blanch me in an earthen dish, give my extract to the vizier, and feed my flesh to the sultan." [13] They bring her to the town and kill her in a bath called, "Şahmaran Hamam". [10] The king eats her flesh and lives, the vizier drinks the extract and dies.
Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
[2] [3] The Brothers Grimm defined legend as "folktale historically grounded". [4] A by-product of the "concern with human beings" is the long list of legendary creatures, leaving no "resolute doubt" that legends are "historically grounded." A modern folklorist's professional definition of legend was proposed by Timothy R. Tangherlini in 1990: [5]
According to Lisa Balabanlilar, the majority of legends present Anarkali as a part of Akbar's harem, as a spouse, a concubine or a servant. [11] Thus, as per Muni Lal, Anarkali was a maidservant in the household of Salim's mother, Mariam-uz-Zamani. [12]
Under the cover of night, after ritualistic special poojas, the person prepared to become an Odiyan undresses, smears magical ink known as pilla oil or pinna oil on both ears, and then transforms into a bull or a buffalo, or becomes invisible as they wish. [9] In more hearsays, the forms of animals like bull and buffalo were generally adopted.
Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]
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 ...