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Bhai Gurdas and the early Sikh literature
ADI SAKHIAN
Tags: sakhian, manuscript, sakhi, sakhis, janam, nanak, compiler, tradition, singh, patiala, guru, source
ADI SAKHIAN (adi = first; sakhian, plural of sakhi = anecdotes, stories, discourses, parables) is one of the early compilations but not the first of the extant janam sakhi traditions to evolve. The manuscript, dated 1758 Bk/ AD 1701, and copied by...
ARDAS,
Tags: ardas, faith, guru, prayer, khalsa, lord, community, holy, sikh, vahiguru, singh, granth
ARDAS, supplication and recollection, is the ritual prayer which Sikhs, individually or in congregation, recite morning and evening and in fact whenever they perform a religious service and at the beginning and conclusion of family, public or...
APOCRYPHAL COMPOSITIONS,
Tags: guru, compositions, apocryphal, attributed, nanak, gurus, addressed, writings, granth, namah, sikh, pran
APOCRYPHAL COMPOSITIONS, known in Sikh vocabulary as kachchi bani (unripe, rejected texts) or vadhu bani (superfluous texts) are those writings, mostly in verse but prose not excluded,which have been attributed to the Gurus, but which were not...
BALA JANAM SAKHI.
Tags: bala, guru, janam, tradition, sakhi, nanak, bhai, early, sakhis, narrative, puratan, version
BALA JANAM SAKHI. The Janam Sakhis of the Bala tradition owe both their name and their reputation to Bhai Bala, a SandhuJa^ from Guru Nanak`s village of Talvandi. According to the tradition`s own claims, Bala was a near contemporary of Guru Nanak...
BEDAVA
Tags: guru, singh, bedava, gobind, anandpur, mahan, sikh, sikhs, bhago, statement, enemy, return
BEDAVA, lit. disclaimer (be=without + dava = claim). The term came to be used by Sikh chroniclers in reference to an episode Kelating to the last days of Guru Gobind Singh *s battle at Anandpur during the winter of 1705. As, in consequence of the...
BHATT-VAHIS
Tags: guru, singh, information, bhatts, bhatt, families, customary, recorded, bhai, vahis, gurus, arjan
BHATTVAHIS, scrolls or records maintained by Bhatts, hereditary bards and genealogists. According to Nesfield as quoted in W. Crooke, The Tribes and Castes of the North Western India, 1896, Bhatts are an "offshoot from those secularised Brahmans who...
CHATURBHUJ POTHI
Tags: pothi, chaturbhuj, guru, miharban, nanak, hariji, gosti, author, sakhi, discourse, part, forms
CHATURBHUJ POTHI, which forms the third part of what is known as the Miharban Janam Sakhi, is the work of Sodhi Chaturbhuj, the youngest of the three sons of Sodhi Miharban (1581-1639), son of Guru Arjan's elder brother, Prithi Chand (1558-1618)....
CHATURBHUJ, SODHI.
Tags: chaturbhuj, pothi, sodhi
CHATURBHUJ, SODHI. See CHATURBHUJ POTHI
HAZARNAMAH
Tags: dutifulness, honesty, virtues, commends, humility, truthfulness, faithfulness, contentment, justice, lusts, control, verse
HAZARNAMAH, an apocryphal composition in verse attributed to Guru Nanak. The work is a discourse on the control of five lusts. It commends virtues of honesty, dutifulness, humility, truthfulness, justice, contentment and faithfulness.
HUKAMNAMA
Tags: guru, singh, sahib, hukamndmds, letters, sikhs, bahadur, sangats, takht, mata, written, gobind
HUKAMNAMA, a compound of two Persian words hukm, meaning command or order, and ndmah, meaning letter, refers in the Sikh tradition to letters sent by the Gurus to their Sikhs or sangats in different parts of the country. Currently, the word applies...

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