Ancient Women of Sindh
THE FEMALE FORCE OF ANCIENT SINDH LITERATURE

Sha Jo Risaio , a poetic compendium of famous Sindhi Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittal, describes seven female characters depicting bravery, passion, loyalty, commitment and character strength.
Maruis character portrays commitment with here traditional love for the land and its people, here stance before a tyrant king, Umar.
Sadia, a loving soul, met with Sarmad only once and fell in love.  They had not even spoken to each other.  The respect they had for each other was countless, their love journey starts eternally, and the end of their story was not in favour of both.

A pensionable soul, Moomal, portrays an image of a girl brimming with love for her beloved, Rano.  She suffers at the altar of separation and rejection.  In spite of everything she never surrenders.
Another strong character in the composition is Sasui, who takes a debilitating journey through mountains to find her beloved, Punhoon.
Noori is a fisher woman who enchants the king Tamachi.  She turns out to be one of the most romantic characters in Sindhi literature like Moomal and Suhni
Sohni is another character that is ready to take the risk for her love.  She braved the hyper waves of the Indus River to meet her beloved Mehar.  She keeps meeting her beloved on the far bank of the river.  On a fateful night she falls victim to the waves of the river and dies.
Lilan portrays the greedy woman wanting an obscenenely expensive necklace bus loses her king (husband) Chanesar for the same.  She undergoes toils severance to regain her status and character.
Sorath is a loving soul full of passion, and cares about her beloved.  
All the women of the poem are strong and resilient characters.  The qualities depicted above are not fictional but actual characteristic of women of Sindh.