Tempo:
HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
312
^pp
yjjj
the nurse of Jupiter, to be a real type of the Virgin Mary! In truth, all religious systems not possessed of a body of literature or philosophy proper to themselves seek elsewhere for support in such matters. Thus the Chevalier Bunsen (Egypt, i. 194, &c.) observes that the early Christians were even desirous of reconciling Scripture with Greek history; and Ranke (Hist, of the
Popes, ed. 1843, p. 125) says that the Church, so late as the sixteenth century, was willing to rest its dogmas and doctrines on the metaphysics of the Ancients.
APPENDIX IX
THE TERMS RAJ AND JOG, DEG AND TEGH The warlike resistance of Har Gobind, or the arming of the Sikhs by that teacher, is mainly attributed by Malcolm (Sketch, pp. 34, 35) and Forster (Travels, i. 298, 299) to his personal feelings of revenge for the death of his father, although religious animosity against Muhammadans is allowed to have had some share in bringing about the change. The circumstance of the Guru's military array does not appear to have struck Muhsin Fani as strange or unusual, and his work, the Dahistan, does not therefore endeavour to account for it. The Sikhs themselves connect the modification of Nanak's system with the double nature of the mythological Janak of Mithila, whose released soul, indeed, is held to have animated the body of their first teacher (Dahistan, ii. 268), and they have encumbered their ideal of a ruler with the following personal anecdote: The wife of Arjun was without ch dren, and she began to despair of ever becoming a mo her. She went to Bhai Buddha, the ancient and only surviving companion of Nanak, to beseech his blessing; but he, disliking the degree of state she assumed and her costly offerings, would not notice her. She afterwards went barefooted and alone to his presence, carrying on her head the ordinary food of peasants. The Bhai smiled benignly upon her, and said she should have a son, who would be master both of the Deg and Tegh; that is, simply of a vessel for food and a sword, but typically of grace and power, the terms corresponding in significance with the 'Raj' and 'Jog' of Janak,^ the 'Piri'
men jog kumaio,' to attain immortal purity or virdwell in grace while exercising earthly sway. It is an expression of not infrequent use, and which occurs in the 1
'Raj
tue, or to
312
^pp
yjjj
the nurse of Jupiter, to be a real type of the Virgin Mary! In truth, all religious systems not possessed of a body of literature or philosophy proper to themselves seek elsewhere for support in such matters. Thus the Chevalier Bunsen (Egypt, i. 194, &c.) observes that the early Christians were even desirous of reconciling Scripture with Greek history; and Ranke (Hist, of the
Popes, ed. 1843, p. 125) says that the Church, so late as the sixteenth century, was willing to rest its dogmas and doctrines on the metaphysics of the Ancients.
APPENDIX IX
THE TERMS RAJ AND JOG, DEG AND TEGH The warlike resistance of Har Gobind, or the arming of the Sikhs by that teacher, is mainly attributed by Malcolm (Sketch, pp. 34, 35) and Forster (Travels, i. 298, 299) to his personal feelings of revenge for the death of his father, although religious animosity against Muhammadans is allowed to have had some share in bringing about the change. The circumstance of the Guru's military array does not appear to have struck Muhsin Fani as strange or unusual, and his work, the Dahistan, does not therefore endeavour to account for it. The Sikhs themselves connect the modification of Nanak's system with the double nature of the mythological Janak of Mithila, whose released soul, indeed, is held to have animated the body of their first teacher (Dahistan, ii. 268), and they have encumbered their ideal of a ruler with the following personal anecdote: The wife of Arjun was without ch dren, and she began to despair of ever becoming a mo her. She went to Bhai Buddha, the ancient and only surviving companion of Nanak, to beseech his blessing; but he, disliking the degree of state she assumed and her costly offerings, would not notice her. She afterwards went barefooted and alone to his presence, carrying on her head the ordinary food of peasants. The Bhai smiled benignly upon her, and said she should have a son, who would be master both of the Deg and Tegh; that is, simply of a vessel for food and a sword, but typically of grace and power, the terms corresponding in significance with the 'Raj' and 'Jog' of Janak,^ the 'Piri'
men jog kumaio,' to attain immortal purity or virdwell in grace while exercising earthly sway. It is an expression of not infrequent use, and which occurs in the 1
'Raj
tue, or to
©
2026
Lehal.net