Sohni Mahiwal (Punjabi: سوہنی معینوال; Sindhi: سهڻي ميهار) is one of
the four prominent terrible sentiments of Punjab. The others are Sassi Punnun,
Mirza Sahiba, and Heer Ranjha. Sohni Mahiwal is an unfortunate romantic tale
which returns the traditional theme of Hero and Leader. The courageous woman
Sohni, despondently wedded to a man she scorns, swims each night over the
waterway utilizing a stoneware pot to keep above water in the water, to where her
adored Mehar groups bison. One night her sister-in-law replaces the pottery pot
with a vessel of unbaked earth, which disintegrates in water and she kicks the
bucket in the spinning rushes of the river.
The story additionally shows up in Shah Jo Risalo and is one of
seven well known grievous sentiments from Sindh. The other six stories are Umar
Marui, Sassui Punhun, Lilan Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Sorath Rai Diyach and
Momal Rano normally known as Seven Heroines (Sindhi: ست سورميون ) of Shah
Abdul Latif Bhittai. Shah starts the story at the most sensational minute, when
a young lady shouts out for help wide open to the harshe elements waterway,
assaulted by crocodiles. The entire part (Sur Sohni) is only an expansion of
this horrendous but then sought after minute when the vessel of her body breaks
and she, reliable to her pre-everlasting adoration contract with Mehar, will be
perpetually joined through death. Sohni is one of the most loved folktales both
in Sindh and Punjab and India.
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