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Appendix 1
I. Janamsakhis There are many janamsakhis (the word will be in roman, without accents, throughout the rest of the appendix) in existence. I. JA.'IIAMSAKHI BY BHAl BAJ.A. This work claims to be a contemporary account wriuen by one Bala Sandhu at the instance of the second guru, Angad. According to the author, he was a close companion of Guru Nanak and accompanied him on many of his travels. There are good reasons to doubt this contention:
(a) Guru Angad, who is said to have commissioned the work and was also a close companion of the Guru in his later years, was, according to .Ba.la's own admission, ignorant of the existence of Bala (h) Gurdas, who has listed all Guru Nanak's prominent disciples whose names were handed down, does not mention the name of Bala Sandhu. (This may be an oversight, for he does not mention Rai BuJar either.) {c) The language used in Lhis janamsakhi was not spoken at the time of Gum Nanak or Guru Angad, but was developed at least a hundred years later. (d) Some of the hymns ascribed to Nanak are not his but those of the second and fifth gurus. (e) At several places expressions whkh gained currency only during the lifetime of the last guru, Gobind Singh (1666-1708), are used, e.g., Vah Guru fi ki Fauh. Bala's janamsakhi.is certainly not a contemporary account; at best it was written in the early pan of the 18th century. 2. VU.A.VAT VALl JANAMSAKHI. In the year 1883 a copy of a janamsakhi was dispatched by the India Office Library in London for the use of Dr Trumpp and the Sikh scholars assisting him. (It bad been given to the Library by an Englishman called Colebrook; it came to br known as the Vilayat Vali or Lhe foreign janamsakhi.) This janamsakhi was the basis of the accounts written by Trumpp, Macauliffe, and most Sikh scholars. It is said ro have been written in AD l588 by one Sewa Das.
3. HAflZABAD VALi JANA\!S \KHI. A renowned Sikh scholar, Gurmukh Singh of the Otient.al College, Lahore, found another janamsakhi at Hafizabad which was very similar to that found by Mr Colebrook.
Appendix 1
I. Janamsakhis There are many janamsakhis (the word will be in roman, without accents, throughout the rest of the appendix) in existence. I. JA.'IIAMSAKHI BY BHAl BAJ.A. This work claims to be a contemporary account wriuen by one Bala Sandhu at the instance of the second guru, Angad. According to the author, he was a close companion of Guru Nanak and accompanied him on many of his travels. There are good reasons to doubt this contention:
(a) Guru Angad, who is said to have commissioned the work and was also a close companion of the Guru in his later years, was, according to .Ba.la's own admission, ignorant of the existence of Bala (h) Gurdas, who has listed all Guru Nanak's prominent disciples whose names were handed down, does not mention the name of Bala Sandhu. (This may be an oversight, for he does not mention Rai BuJar either.) {c) The language used in Lhis janamsakhi was not spoken at the time of Gum Nanak or Guru Angad, but was developed at least a hundred years later. (d) Some of the hymns ascribed to Nanak are not his but those of the second and fifth gurus. (e) At several places expressions whkh gained currency only during the lifetime of the last guru, Gobind Singh (1666-1708), are used, e.g., Vah Guru fi ki Fauh. Bala's janamsakhi.is certainly not a contemporary account; at best it was written in the early pan of the 18th century. 2. VU.A.VAT VALl JANAMSAKHI. In the year 1883 a copy of a janamsakhi was dispatched by the India Office Library in London for the use of Dr Trumpp and the Sikh scholars assisting him. (It bad been given to the Library by an Englishman called Colebrook; it came to br known as the Vilayat Vali or Lhe foreign janamsakhi.) This janamsakhi was the basis of the accounts written by Trumpp, Macauliffe, and most Sikh scholars. It is said ro have been written in AD l588 by one Sewa Das.
3. HAflZABAD VALi JANA\!S \KHI. A renowned Sikh scholar, Gurmukh Singh of the Otient.al College, Lahore, found another janamsakhi at Hafizabad which was very similar to that found by Mr Colebrook.
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