Chandi Charitar Ukat(i) Bilas

Chandi Charitar Ukat(i) Bilas is a narration present in Second Scripture of Sikhs, Dasam Granth, written by Guru Gobind Singh. This narrative contains War of Wisdom between Gurmat and Manmat. All Deamons are against god and against existense of God, are called Manmatt. Chandi is shown as gurmukh which show deamons the way to God. Dieties are those which have only faith in God.

Chandi Charitar Ukat(i) bilas means Discussion on Charitar of Chandi i.e Discussion on Characterstics and Function of Chandi. Chandi is Vivek Budhi i.e intuitive and discerning mind, it fights with evils of inside.

Overview of Ukati Bilas

Chandi Charitars was written before in purans, GUru Gobind Singh wrote it with new style and with new definations. Guru Gobind Singh picked characters from those puranas to explain his version of Chandi Charitar thats why he mentioned name of Puran in end of the granth from where he picked characters. The source of characters is Markandya Puran.

It is in Braj Language. One of these compositions is known as Chandi Charitra Ukti Bilas whereas the second has no qualifying extension to its title i.e generally called Chandi Charitar 2, except in the manuscript of the Dasam Granth preserved in the toshakhana at Takht Sri Harimandar Sahib at Patna, which is designated Chandi Charitra Trambi Mahatam.

Ukat(i) bilas is divided into eight cantos, comprises 233 couplets and quatrains, employing seven different metres, with Savaiyya and Dohara predominating. In the former, the source of the story mentioned is Durga Saptasati which is a portion of Markandeya purana, from chapters 81 to 94.

It was composed at Anandpur Sahib, sometime before AD 1698, the year when the Bachitra Natak was completed. The concluding lines of the last canto of Chandi Charitra Ukti Bilas as included in the Dasam Granth manuscript preserved at Patna, however, mention 1752 Bk / AD 1695 as the year of the composition of this work.

Views of Hindus and Anti Dasam on this bani

Hindus and Anti-Dasam persons treat Chandi as a diety. According to them Chandi is diety which live somewhere in kailash and when other Dieties face any problem from deamons, She come out and help them. Their interpretation have no relations with Gurmat and spirituality. They think Chandi as some goddess having lion beneath it and have eight hands carrying different weapons. Hindus treat them diety and worship her but Anti Dasam only treat her goddess, but do not worship it. Gurmukhs have very different view on Chandi, totally against these two groups who had misinterpreted Chandi for sake of money or ignorance.