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Nineteenth century Literature
AJAT SAGAR
Tags: surjan, ajat, work, library, udasis, chandigarh, sect, sagar, singh, ajatpanthi, uneven, poetry
AJAT SAGAR, by Surjan Das Ajat, is the religious book of the Ajatpanthi sect of the Udasis. Written in AD 1851, the only known manuscript of the work was available in the Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until it perished during the Blue Star...
AMAR KATHA,
Tags: guru, nanak, nirankar, dated, sakhis, sakhi, tradition, amar, bala, picked, manuscripts, university
AMAR KATHA, of unknown authorship, comprises a mixture of diverse hagiographic traditions bearing on the life of Guru Nanak. The work remains unpublished, but several manuscripts are known to exist: for instance, two of them, dated AD 1818 and 1872,...
ANANDPUR DI VAR
Tags: singh, surjan, maha, battle, sodhi, chand, poet, force, raja, state, bhai, kahlur
ANANDPUR DI VAR is a versified account in Punjabi, by one Ram Singh, of a battle fought in 1812 between Sodhi Surjan Singh of Anandpur and Raja Maha Chand of Kahlur. Sodhi Surjan Singh was a lineal descendant of Suraj Mall, a son of Guru Hargobind....
BACHAN SAIN LOKA KE
Tags: work, enemies, justice, dispense, cloud, sword, destroys, woman, 1819, rain, king, arrows
BACHAN SAIN LOKA KE, a book of morals in Punjabi prose belonging to the Sevapanthi sect. There is no internal evidence to establish its date or authorship, but several of the bachans or sayings in this work are identical with those in Sahaj Ram's...
BACHITRA NATAK
Tags: guru, singh, gobind, bachitra, natak, granth, poet, divine, battle, dasam, world, tenth
BACHITRA NATAK (bachitra = marvellous, wondrous + natak = drama, play) is the name given a complex of compositions, commonly attributed to Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru or prophet teacher of the Sikh faith, assembled in his book, the Dasam...
BAINTAN SHER SINGH KIAN,
Tags: singh, poem, poet, sher, dhian, hira, murders, 1843, ajit, stanzas, dogra, couplet
BAINTAN SHER SINGH KIAN, by Nihal Singh, is a poem dealing with some gruesome events from the history of the Sikhs murders in 1843 of the Sikh monarch Maharaja Sher Singh, his young son Partap Singh, and minister Dhian Singh Dogra at the hands of...
BANI BHAGATAN SATIX
Tags: singh, sahib, bani, guru, tara, saints, granth, book, author, raga, covering, bhaktas
BANI BHAGATAN SATIX (satik = exegesis or commentary) by Pandit Tara Singh Narotam (q.v.) is an exposition of the bani or hymns of the bhaktas or saints (here the word implies contributors to the Guru Granth Sahib other than the Gurus). The work was,...
BHAGAT MAL
Tags: sikh, guru, explanation, bhai, singh, stanzas, work, granth, amritsar, khalsa, sikhs, quoted
BHAGAT MAL, subtitled SakhiBhai Gurdas Ji ki Var Varvfri Sikhan di Bhagatmala, is an anonymous manuscript (Kirpal Singh, A Catalogue of Punjabi and Urdu Manuscripts, attributes it to one Kirpa Ram, though in the work itself no reference to this name...
BHAG SINGH CHANDRA UDAYA
Tags: singh, bhag, sardar, jassa, 1801, ahluvalia, sukh, state, life, manuscript, folios, accession
BHAG SINGH CHANDRA UDAYA, an undated manuscript preserved in the Punjab State Archives, Patiala, under accession No. M/773, deals with the life and achievements of Sardar Bhag Singh Ahluvalia (1745-1801), who succeeded Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluvalia...
BHANDARI PAPERS
Tags: letters, singh, british, collection, ludhiana, bhandari, lahore, documents, papers, notes, agents, political
BHANDARI PAPERS, a large collection of sundry papers, letters and documents preserved in the Punjab State Archives, Patiala, and named after the collector, Rai Indarjit Singh Bhandari of Batala. Little is known about the life of Indarjit Singh...

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