ADI SAKHIAN
ADI SAKHIAN (adi = first; sakhian, plural of sakhi = anecdotes, stories, discourses, parables) is one of the early compilations...
Bhai Gurdas and the early Sikh literature
Bhai Gurdas, a scholar and poet, penned the Varan Bhai Gurdas, interpreting Sikh teachings. Early Sikh literature includes Janam Sakhis, recounting Guru Nanak's life, and hymns in Guru Granth Sahib.
APOCRYPHAL COMPOSITIONS
APOCRYPHAL COMPOSITIONS, known in Sikh vocabulary as kachchi bani (unripe, rejected texts) or vadhu bani (superfluous texts) are those writings,...
ARDAS,
ARDAS, supplication and recollection, is the ritual prayer which Sikhs, individually or in congregation, recite morning and evening and...
BALA JANAM SAKHI
BALA JANAM SAKHI. The Janam Sakhis of the Bala tradition owe both their name and their reputation to Bhai...
BHATT-VAHIS
BHATTVAHIS, scrolls or records maintained by Bhatts, hereditary bards and genealogists. According to Nesfield as quoted in W. Crooke,...
CHATURBHUJ POTHI
CHATURBHUJ POTHI, which forms the third part of what is known as the Miharban Janam Sakhi, is the work of...
HAQIQAT RAH MUQAM RAJE SHIVNABH KI
HAQIQAT RAH MUQAM RAJE SHIVNABH KI Haqiqat Rah Muqam Raje Shivnabh Ki (account or description of way, i.e. journey to...
HAZARNAMAH
HAZARNAMAH, an apocryphal composition in verse attributed to Guru Nanak. The work is a discourse on the control of five...
HUKAMNAMA
HUKAMNAMA, a compound of two Persian words hukm, meaning command or order, and namah, meaning letter, refers in the Sikh...
JANAM SAKHI
JANAM SAKHI, i.e. life story, is the term used to designate traditional narratives of the life of Guru Nanak. Although...
JANAM SAKHI B40
JANAM SAKHI derives its name from the number attached to the manuscript in the catalogue of the India Office Library,...
KABITT-SAVAIYYE
KABITTSAVAIYYE, by Bhai Gurdaswho had worked with Guru Arjan on the preparation of the original volume of Sikh scripture, the...
