41. BANI PRAKASH

BANI PRAKASH or 5n Guru Banf Prakash is a dictionary of the Guru Granth Sahib compiled by Sodhi Teja Singh. According to the author, he started working on it in December 1928, and got it printed in 1932 at the Phulwari Press, Lahore. The original ver...

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42. BANSAVALINAMA DASAN PATSHAHIAN KA

BANSAVALINAMA DASAN PATSHAHIAN KA is a poeticized account of the lives of the Gurus by Kesar Singh Chhibbar. The term bansavalinama means a genealogy. Another term used in the text is "kursinama" which is Persian for "genealogy." But, strictly speaki...

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43. BASANT KIVAR,

BASANT KIVAR, by Guru Arjan, is the shortest of the twentytwo vars, i.e. holy poems composed in the style or tone of odes (vars, in Punjabi) or heroic ballads included in the Guru Granth Sahib. Basant, Punjabi for spring, from which musical measure t...

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44. BAVAN AKHARI,

BAVAN AKHARI, a poem constructed upon 52 (bavan) letters (akhar) of the alphabet. In this form of poetry each verse begins serially with a letter of the alphabet. The origin of the genre is traced to ancient Sanskrit literature. Since the Devanagari ...

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45. BAVANJA KAVI

BAVANJA KAVI, lit. fiftytwo poets, is how the galaxy of poets and scholars who attended on Guru Gobind Singh (16661708) is popularly designated. Guru Gobind Singh, Nanak X, prophet and soldier, was an accomplished poet and also a great patron of lett...

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