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- Waris Shah — Person · b. 1722 – d. 1799 (aged 76–77); composed his Heer in 1766 · Qissa StorytellingA 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.
- Mian Muhammad Bakhsh — Person · c. 1830 – 22 January 1907 · Qissa StorytellingA Qadiri Sufi of Khari Sharif near Mirpur who turned the Arabic tale of Prince Saif ul-Muluk into a Punjabi masnavi so widely read that its verses are still recited from memory across Punjab and Azad Kashmir.
- Hashim Shah — Person · c. 1752/53 – 1821/23 (Athar Tahir's 'generally accepted dates'); a separate, more venerative tradition gives 1735–1843, with burial at Tharpal village, Narowal District, Pakistan · Qissa StorytellingHashim Shah, a Punjabi Sufi poet of Jagdev Kalan in Amritsar district, composed the qissa romances Sassi Punnun, Sohni Mahiwal and Shirin Farhad, and left almost nothing of his own life in them beyond the pen-name he tucked into the close of nearly every stanza.
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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 · Qissa StorytellingDamodar 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.