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Sex, Social Critique and the Female Figure in Premodern Punjabi Poetry: Vāris Shāh's ‘Hīr’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2002

Jeevan Deol
Jeevan Deol
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University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Vāris Shāh is the lord of poetry: who can criticise him?

I am not worthy enough to point a finger at his verses.

When anyone understands the Chūhṛeṭī he wrote completely

It has fragrance in its every word, just like a basket of flowers. (Mīāil; Muhammad Bakhsh)

Vāris Shāh is the lord of poetry and never stumbled or got stuck-

Like an unroughened millstone, he crushed both big and small.

A man filled with compassion and feeling, he everywhere expressed himself indirectly:

But even the wise don't understand what he described and thought. (Ahmad Yār)

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 141 - 171
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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