Sohni Mahiwal

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Sohni Mahiwal is a famous tragic love story from Punjabi folklore and literature, centered on the doomed romance between a potter’s wife Sohni and her beloved Mahiwal.

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Label Occurrences
Sohni Mahiwal canonical 3
Sohni 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Punjabi folktale
South Asian folklore
romantic legend
tragic love story
associatedWith Chenab River
pottery craft
centralFemaleCharacter Sohni Mahiwal self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sohni
centralMaleCharacter Mahiwal
ending death of Mahiwal
death of Sohni
featuresCharacterRole herdsman
potter’s wife
hasAdaptationType film
poetic retellings
stage play
television series
hasCulturalOrigin Indo-Islamic literary tradition
Punjabi culture
hasGenre romance
tragedy
hasLanguageTradition Punjabi
Saraiki
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
hasMainCharacter Mahiwal
Sohni Mahiwal self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sohni
hasNarrativeStructure star-crossed lovers
hasSettingRegion Punjab
hasTheme adultery
fate
sacrifice
social constraints
tragic love
influenced South Asian popular culture
isOftenGroupedWith Heer Ranjha
Mirza Sahiban
Sassi Punnun
isPartOf Punjabi romantic tragedies
moralInterpretation celebration of unwavering love
condemnation of rigid social norms
narrativeType oral tradition
qissa
plotElement sabotaged unbaked clay pot
secret nightly river crossings
use of a baked clay pot as a float
symbolizes female courage
love transcending social barriers
timeOfOrigin pre-modern period

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Punjabi literature hasNotableWork Sohni Mahiwal
Sassi Punnun isComparableTo Sohni Mahiwal
Mirza Sahiban relatedWork Sohni Mahiwal
Sohni Mahiwal hasMainCharacter Sohni Mahiwal self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sohni
Sohni Mahiwal centralFemaleCharacter Sohni Mahiwal self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sohni