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Punjabi Folklore
Punjabi folklore (more particularly its folksongs) is a core part of the Punjabi culture. Other important components of Punjabi folklore are farces, anecdotes, idioms, folktales, and sayings. Research Origin Richard Carnac Temple argued in his 1884 work, ''The Legends of the Punjab'', that the plot structure of Punjabi folktales and Bhat Vahis, bardic poetry was indistinguishable from one another, albeit with the bardic poems being more textually conservative (as they had been governed by Metre (poetry), metre and rhyme due to being in verse form). This led him to believe that the folktales originated from the bardic literature, existing as degraded derivatives. Themes Punjabi folktales commonly incorporate stories involving animals which teach a moral lesson. This is a theme which originated in ancient India, with a surviving example being the ''Panchatantra'' of the third century BCE. Other prevalent themes found within Punjabi folklore is a suspcision of those in posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folios Of A Manuscript Of Heer Waris Shah (Waris Shah's Version Of The Heer-Ranjha Folktale), Circa 19th Century
The term "folio" () has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging Paper size, sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book made in this way; second, it is a general term for a sheet, leaf or page in (especially) manuscripts and old books; and third, it is an approximate term for the Book size, size of a book, and for a book of this size. First, a folio (abbreviated fo or 2o) is a book or pamphlet made up of one or more full sheets of paper, on each of which four pages of text are printed, two on each side; each sheet is then folded once to produce two leaf (books), leaves. Each leaf of a folio book thus is one half the size of the original sheet. Ordinarily, additional printed folio sheets would be inserted inside one another to form a group or "gathering" of leaves prior to binding the book. Second, folio is used in terms of page numbering for some bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
