1. DAKHANE,

DAKHANE, title of sixtynine slokas by Guni Arjan, incorporated in his var in the measure Maru, three each with its twentythree pauris or stanzas. The word dakhne (Skt. daksini) means `southern.` The language of these verses is a dialect of the southe...

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2. DAS GRANTHI

DAS, BHATT. See BHATT BANI DAS GRANTHI, a pothi, i.e. a small book, containing selected barns or texts from the Dasam Granth. Das, meaning `ten`, here stands for `tenth`, or the Tenth Master`s granth or book to distinguish it from the older Adi Grant...

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3. DASAM GRANTH

DASAM GRANTH (lit. the Tenth Book, generally signifying the Book of the Tenth Guru) is how the collection of compositions attributed to the Tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, is named to distinguish it from the earlier work, the Adi Granth, the First or ...

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4. DIN-RAIN

DINRAIN, lit. (din + rain) day and night, is the title (dinraini) of a single 4stanza hymn by Guru Arjan Dev in the Majh measure (GG, 13637). The composition evidently follows the prosodic vogue of inscribing verses to kalkrama (process of time) embr...

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