Love's Final Crossing: The Tragic Tale of Soni and Mahiwal

You wouldn't have read something so beautiful and so heartbreaking at the same time. 

I'm still listening to Par Chanaa De, let me tell you the story behind it. 

There is a girl called Soni, who lives on one side of river Chanaa(Chenab river) and the Mahiwal, a herder, lives on the other side of the river. Soni belongs to a family of potters. Mahiwal and Soni end up falling in love but Soni's father gets her married to another family of potters. 

Soni still continues to meet Mahiwal.

Every night she uses an Earthen pot, a matkaa/ghada to cross the Chenab river. Soon enough rumours start spreading in the village. One night, Soni's sister-in-law changes her 'ghada' with an unbaked one. Soni uses it to cross the river and she perishes into it. Mahiwal who was seeing this from the other side of the river jumped in the river to try and save his Soni. Alas both drowned and died only to be united after death. 

And the song goes like, "Yaar nu milegi aaj laash yaar di"- my lover would be greeted by my corpse, and as Klaus Mikaleson in The Originals said, "What worth dying, if not love?"