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ninth guru, Tegh Bahadur, inserted at the appropriate places. This compilation was lost in the Va4,i Ghallilghara of 1762. Fortunately, many copies of Guru Gobind's compilation had been made before the disaster. These are somewhat different from the two earlier editions. There are therefore three main versions (birs) of the Adi Granth. 1. KARTARPUR VALi B~. dictated by Guru Arjun to Bhai Gurdas. The compilation was made at Amritsar and later removed to Kartarpur, where it has remained ever since. The opening lines of this volume are in the hand of Arjun himself. IL also bears the signature of rus son, the sixth guru, Hargobind,1 at the end. It has several blank pages in it. According to tradition, these were left hy Atjun for the compositions ofhis successors. The location of the blank pages does not lend support to the traditional view. 2. BHAl BANNO YAU B~ Soon after completing the writing, Guru Arjun
asked one of his followers, Bhai Banno, to take the manuscript to Lahore to have it bound. In the course of the journey to and from Lahore, and while it was being bound, Bhai Banno had a copy made for h.is own use. In this edition he inserted a few extraneous hymns. Bhai Banno's copy is still with his descendants. Some tranScriprions based on Bhai Banno's lnr are available. 3. DAM DAMA YAU B~. The two earlier editions bad only the hymns of
the first five gurus and the works of some saint-poets. The sixth, seventh, and eighth gurus did not write, but the ninth guru. Tegh Bahadur, and his son, the tenth guru, Gobind Singh, were prolific writers of religious verses. Blank pages in the first editions dictated by Guru Arjun did not provide enough space to take this additional writing; nor indeed did the placing of these blank pages indicate that the fifth guru necessarily intended the additions to be inserted in the same volume. Guru Gobind Singh did not insert his own compositions in the Adi Granth. (His disciple, Mani Singh, collected them in a separate volume called the DasueJ1 Padsah ka Granth.) Gobind did, however, wish to find a place for his father's compositions in it. ft appears that he inserted them at Anandpur and, after the destruction of the town, redictated them to Mani Singh at Dam Dama in the few months of respite from battle in 1704. The editions of the Adi Granth 1 Rev. C. H, Lochlin, who examined this volume, doubts the authenticity of the writing by the fifth gum and the signature. ( The Sikhs and Their Boolts). Later publications by thls author do not say anything on I.he subject.
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ninth guru, Tegh Bahadur, inserted at the appropriate places. This compilation was lost in the Va4,i Ghallilghara of 1762. Fortunately, many copies of Guru Gobind's compilation had been made before the disaster. These are somewhat different from the two earlier editions. There are therefore three main versions (birs) of the Adi Granth. 1. KARTARPUR VALi B~. dictated by Guru Arjun to Bhai Gurdas. The compilation was made at Amritsar and later removed to Kartarpur, where it has remained ever since. The opening lines of this volume are in the hand of Arjun himself. IL also bears the signature of rus son, the sixth guru, Hargobind,1 at the end. It has several blank pages in it. According to tradition, these were left hy Atjun for the compositions ofhis successors. The location of the blank pages does not lend support to the traditional view. 2. BHAl BANNO YAU B~ Soon after completing the writing, Guru Arjun
asked one of his followers, Bhai Banno, to take the manuscript to Lahore to have it bound. In the course of the journey to and from Lahore, and while it was being bound, Bhai Banno had a copy made for h.is own use. In this edition he inserted a few extraneous hymns. Bhai Banno's copy is still with his descendants. Some tranScriprions based on Bhai Banno's lnr are available. 3. DAM DAMA YAU B~. The two earlier editions bad only the hymns of
the first five gurus and the works of some saint-poets. The sixth, seventh, and eighth gurus did not write, but the ninth guru. Tegh Bahadur, and his son, the tenth guru, Gobind Singh, were prolific writers of religious verses. Blank pages in the first editions dictated by Guru Arjun did not provide enough space to take this additional writing; nor indeed did the placing of these blank pages indicate that the fifth guru necessarily intended the additions to be inserted in the same volume. Guru Gobind Singh did not insert his own compositions in the Adi Granth. (His disciple, Mani Singh, collected them in a separate volume called the DasueJ1 Padsah ka Granth.) Gobind did, however, wish to find a place for his father's compositions in it. ft appears that he inserted them at Anandpur and, after the destruction of the town, redictated them to Mani Singh at Dam Dama in the few months of respite from battle in 1704. The editions of the Adi Granth 1 Rev. C. H, Lochlin, who examined this volume, doubts the authenticity of the writing by the fifth gum and the signature. ( The Sikhs and Their Boolts). Later publications by thls author do not say anything on I.he subject.
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