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Guru Arjun, Bhai Gurdas, and Bhai Buddha, people less qualified than
lhey, proceeded to write the life of Nanak. They took whatever information was readily available and, for the rest, created situations out of their imagination to give an appropriate setting to some of the hymns of the Guru, which had already been compiled in the Adi Granth (e.g., the acrostic was thus used to create a story that the Guru was sent to school and at the tender age of seven was able to confound his teacher with his lea.med answers). Nevertheless, when we put together all the material listed above, check one with another, discard the miraculous, delete the accretions of the credulous, we are still left with enough to recreate a life story with a fair degree of authenticity.
293
Guru Arjun, Bhai Gurdas, and Bhai Buddha, people less qualified than
lhey, proceeded to write the life of Nanak. They took whatever information was readily available and, for the rest, created situations out of their imagination to give an appropriate setting to some of the hymns of the Guru, which had already been compiled in the Adi Granth (e.g., the acrostic was thus used to create a story that the Guru was sent to school and at the tender age of seven was able to confound his teacher with his lea.med answers). Nevertheless, when we put together all the material listed above, check one with another, discard the miraculous, delete the accretions of the credulous, we are still left with enough to recreate a life story with a fair degree of authenticity.
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