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Sri Guru Granth Sahib and Guru Gobind Singh's Bani
ADI GRANTH.
Tags: granth, sahib, guru
ADI GRANTH. See SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
AKAL USTATI
Tags: verses, guru, praise, singh, verse, granth, dasam, ustati, timeless, akal, gobind, words
AKAL USTATI (In Praise of the Timeless Being) is a poetical composition by Guru Gobind Singh in the Dasam Granth. This is the only major composition in the Tenth Master's Book which is without a title. The title by which it is known is made up of...
ALAHNIAN
Tags: death, alahnian, guru, granth, dead, nanak, world, women, part, siapa, person, mourning
ALAHNIAN, Guru Nanak's composition in measure Vadahans in the Guru Granth Sahib. Alahni, generally used in its plural form alahnian, is a dirge wailingly sung in chorus by women mourning the death of a relation. Etymologically, the word means an...
ANANDU,
Tags: guru, anand, grace, maya, blessed, suffering, bliss, pure, banishes, amar, composition, meditating
ANANDU, noncanonically spelt Anand, by Guru Amar Das, is like Guru Nanak`s Japu, one of the more familiar texts in the Guru Granth Sahib. Set in the Ramkali musical measure and comprising forty stanzas, Anand is recited liturgically, especially in...
ANJULIA
Tags: guru, anjuli, world, material, measure, granth, hymns, life, word, salutation, title, sahibji
ANJULIA (N), by Guru Arjan, is a short composition comprising two hymns entered in the Guru Granth Sahib under Maru musical measure (GG, 1019). This word anjulia (n) is the plural form of Sanskrit anjuli which means the joining together of palms in...
ASA KI VAR
Tags: guru, nanak, lord, impure, bhai, sahib, composition, thread, slokas, sirigh, woman, true
ASA KI VAR, as recorded in the index to the Guru Granth Sahib, but commonly designated Asa di Var, lit. an ode (var) in the musical measure Asa, is a composition by Guru Nanak sung by musicians at Sikh congregations as part of the early morning...
ACROSTIC
Tags: alphabet, nanak, acrostic, world, tablet, thou, lord, account, giver, true, primal, friend
ACROSTIC :At the age of seven Guru Nanak went to school and the schoolmaster wrote the alphabet on a wooden tablet for Nanak. After just one day Nanak copied the alphabet from memory and made an acrostic on the alphabet. The acrostic called the...
ANAND SAHEB
Tags: lord, guru, anand, composition, beatific, master, abide, tenor, saith, nanak, stanzas, line
'Anand', which the Sikhs reverently call Anand Saheb is among the most popular compositions of Guru Amardas, the third of the ten Sikh gurus. This important composition constitutes on significant part of the daily liturgical recitations prescribed...
BABAR VANI
Tags: nanak, babar, guru, thou, lalo, lord, hymns, india, true, babarvani, people, words
BABAR VANI (Babar's command or sway) is how the four hymns by Guru Nanak alluding to the invasions by Babar (1483-1530), the first Mughal emperor of India, are collectively known in Sikh literature. The name is derived from the use of the term in...
BALH
Tags: bani, bhatt, balh
BALH. See BHATT BANI

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