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- Bulleh Shah — Person · birth date and place unknown for certain (Shackle); died AH 1171 per the Persian chronogram on his tomb at Kasur, equivalent to 1757 or 1758 CE — "the later year is somewhat more probable" · Punjabi Sufi PoetryBulleh Shah, whose formal education and later life were spent at Kasur under the Mughal empire's decline, is — in Christopher Shackle's own words — "long been rightly regarded as the greatest master of the mystical Sufi lyric in Panjabi," though "remarkably few details of his life can be reliably established."
- Waris Shah — Person · b. 1722 – d. 1799 (aged 76–77); composed his Heer in 1766 · Punjabi Sufi PoetryA Sayyid poet of Jandiala Sher Khan whose 1766 telling of Heer Ranjha became the version by which the story is popularly known, and whose text was corrupted by thousands of later interpolated verses within a century and a half of his death.
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- Damodar Gulati — Person · fl. early 17th century, during the reign of Akbar (d. 1605); no death date recorded in any source consulted · Punjabi Sufi PoetryDamodar Gulati was a Punjabi Hindu poet of Jhang who, writing early in the seventeenth century during the reign of Akbar, composed the first known literary Qissa of Heer and Ranjha, the tale that Waris Shah and other later poets adapted from his version.