![]() ![]() He wanders the countryside alone, until eventually he meets a Shaiva Jogi (ascetic). Heer is forced by her family and the local priest or ' Maulvi' to marry another man named Saida Khera. ![]() 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 becomes mesmerised by the way Ranjha plays his flute and eventually falls in love with him. ![]() Heer's father offers Ranjha a job herding his cattle. Eventually he arrives in Heer's village and falls in love with her. In Waris Shah's version of the epic, Ranjha leaves home because his brothers' wives refused to give and serve him food. After the death of Ranjha's father, Mauju Chaudhry, Ranjha has a quarrel with his brothers over land, and leaves home. Being his father's favourite son, unlike his brothers who had to toil in the lands, he led a life of ease, playing the flute ('Wanjhli'/' Bansuri'). Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Sial Jat family in Jhang, Punjab and Dheedo Ranjha of the Ranjha tribe of Jats, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village of Takht Hazara by the river Chenab in Punjab, Pakistan. ![]()
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