Proofs in Sketch of Sikhs about Guru Gobind Singh's Compositions

• Page - 31 - famous by compiling the Adi-Grant'h *. The Adi-Grant'h, or first sacred volume of the Sikhs, contains ninety-two sections : it was partly composed by Nanac and his immediate successors, but received its pre- sent form and arrangement from Arjunmalf, " substance," he adds, " which none else could di- " gest, the property of the family remained in the « family." * Grant'h means book ; but, as a mark of its supe- riority to all others, is given to this work, as " The " Book." Adi Grant'h means, the first Grant'h, or book, and is generally given to this work to distin- guish it from the Dasama Padshah ka Grant'h, or the book of the tenth king, composed by Guru Govind. f Though the original Adi-Grant'h was compiled by Arjunmal, from the writings of Nanac, Angad, Amera •Das, and Ram Das, and enlarged and improved by his own additions and commentaries, some small portions have been subsequently added by thirteen different persons, whose numbers, however, are reduced, by the Sikh authors, to twelve and a half: the last contri- butor to this sacred volume being a woman, is only admitted to rank in the list as a fraction, by these ungallant writers.

• Page 51 - Govind inculcated his tenets upon his followers by his preaching, his actions, and his works ; among which is the Dasama Padshah ka Grant'h, or the book of the tenth king or ruler; Guru Govind being the tenth leader of the sect from Nanac. This volume, which is not limited to reli- gious subjects, but filled with accounts of his own. battles, and written with the view of stirring up a spirit of valour and emu- lation among his followers, is at least as 52 SKETCH OF THE SIKHS. much revered, among the Sikhs, as the Adi-Grant'h of Arjunmal.

• Page 188 - The Dasama Padshah ka Grant'h of Guru Govind appears, from the extracts which I have seen of it, to abound in fine passages. Its author has borrowed largely from the Sastras of the Brahmens, and the Koran. He praises Nanac as a holy saint, accepted of God ; and grounds his faith, like that of his predecessors, upon the adoration of one God; whose power and attributes he however describes by so many Sanscrit names, and with such constant allusions to the Hindu mythology, that it appears often difficult to separate his purer belief from their gross idolatry. He, how- ever, rejects all worship of images, on an opinion taken from one of the ancient Vedas, which declares, " that to worship ..............

Page 186 - Agreeably to this author, Guru Govind was ini- tiated on Friday, the 8th of the month B'hadra, in the year 1753 of the sera of Vicramaditya; and on that day his great work, the Dasama Padshah ka Grant'h, or book of the tenth king, was completed.

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