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Digitization of Qissa Puran Bhagat by Qadir Yar Qadir Yar started his literary career with Mehraj Nama (1832), the longest poem composed by him and containing 1014 couplets. The poem gives a fictional account of Prophet Muhammad 's journey through the seven skies.
Puran also known as Baba Sahaj Nath Ji, is the supreme head of the Jandiyals, a Hindu caste.The Jandiyals gather twice a year on Guru Purnima and worship Puran Bhagat. The temple of Bawa Sahaj Nath Ji is located in Pakistan, but after partition, the Jandiyals constructed a temple in Jandi near Heeranagar, Jammu, and in Talab tillo (Jammu), another temple is in Taragarh near Dinanagar where ...
The Adventures of the Panjáb Hero Rájá Rasálu, by Charles Swynnerton, 1884. The story of Raja Salban and his two sons, Puran and Rasalu, has been popular in Punjab for several centuries.
[13]: 78–85 One of the earliest commercial Punjabi books on record is an 1851 edition of Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha version produced by the Chashm-i-Nur Press of Lahore. [ 13 ] : 78–85 Not much is known about Punjabi books before 1867, the year the administration began compiling reports on vernacular publishing.
Gawalmandi is a residential town located in central Lahore, in Pakistan's Punjab province. [1] It is regarded as the cultural centre of Lahore. The famous Gawalmandi Food Street of Lahore is located here. [2] [3] [4] Gawalmandi is a fusion of two words: Gawala, meaning milkman and Mandi, the Urdu word for market.
The epic is based on the ancient legend of saint Puran Bhagat (Bhagat is the Punjabi word for a saint, devotee). Puran is a prince whose father marries a girl named Loona, much younger than him. Loona, the stepmother of Puran, is attracted to Puran and conveys her feelings to him. Puran, a devotee of God and having pure thoughts, refuses.
Guru Ram Das was born in the Chuna Mandi Bazaar of Lahore in 1534 CE. [ 2 ] The childhood home existed until the era of Maharaja Ranjit Singh , who purportedly was asked to build a new shrine at the site during the birth celebrations of Kharak Singh in 1801. [ 1 ]
Raja Sálbán (also known as Salivahan) [1] was a legendary Indian monarch who is said to have founded the city and the Sialkot Fort in Punjab. [note 1] [2] [3] According to Punjabi folklore, he was father of Puran Bhagat and Raja Rasalu, the protagonist of the Adventures of Raja Rasalu.