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==Summary of the love story== | ==Summary of the love story== | ||
[[File:Luddan ferries Ranjha across the Chenab.jpg|left|thumb|Luddan ferries Ranjha across the Chenab]] | [[File:Luddan ferries Ranjha across the Chenab.jpg|left|thumb|Luddan ferries Ranjha across the Chenab]] | ||
Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Sial | Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Sial Rajput family in [[Jhang]], [[Punjab]] and Dheedo Ranjha of the [[Ranjha (tribe)|Ranjha]] tribe of Jats, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village of [[Takht Hazara]] by the river [[Chenab]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Re-Thinking Punjab: The Construction of Siraiki Identity|publisher=[[Hussain Ahmed Khan]]|year=2004|isbn=978-9-69862-309-8|location=Lahore : Research and Publication Centre|pages=130}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Transition and Transformation in Varis Shah's Hir|publisher=[[Shackle, Christopher]]|year=1992|isbn=978-3-44703-241-4|location=Snell, Rupert (eds.). The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag.|pages=253}}</ref> Being his father's favorite son, unlike his brothers who had to toil in the lands, he led a life of ease, playing the flute ('Wanjhli'/'[[Bansuri]]'). After the death of Ranjha's father, Mauju Chaudhry, Ranjha has a quarrel with his brothers over land, Ranjha leaves home. In Waris Shah's version of the epic, it is said that Ranjha left his home because his brothers' wives refused to give and serve him food. Eventually he arrives in Heer's village and falls in love with her. Heer's father offers Ranjha a job herding his cattle. Heer becomes mesmerised by the way Ranjha plays his flute and eventually falls in love with him. They meet each other secretly for many years until they are caught by Heer's jealous uncle, Kaido, and her parents Chuchak and Malki. Heer is forced by her family and the local priest or '[[Maulvi]]' to marry another man named Saida Khera.<ref name=APNA/> | ||
Ranjha is heartbroken. He wanders the countryside alone, until eventually he meets a [[Shaivism|Shaiva]] [[Jogi (caste)|Jogi]] (ascetic). After meeting [[Gorakhnath]], the founder of the "Kanphata" (pierced ear) sect of jogis at [[Tilla Jogian]] (the 'Hill of Ascetics', located 80 kilometres north of the historic town of [[Bhera]], [[Sargodha District]], Punjab), Ranjha becomes a jogi himself, piercing his ears and renouncing the material world. While reciting the name of the Lord, he wanders all over Punjab, eventually finding the village where Heer now lives. | Ranjha is heartbroken. He wanders the countryside alone, until eventually he meets a [[Shaivism|Shaiva]] [[Jogi (caste)|Jogi]] (ascetic). After meeting [[Gorakhnath]], the founder of the "Kanphata" (pierced ear) sect of jogis at [[Tilla Jogian]] (the 'Hill of Ascetics', located 80 kilometres north of the historic town of [[Bhera]], [[Sargodha District]], Punjab), Ranjha becomes a jogi himself, piercing his ears and renouncing the material world. While reciting the name of the Lord, he wanders all over Punjab, eventually finding the village where Heer now lives. | ||