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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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The contributors among the Gurus were as follows: Nanak. 2. Angad. 1.
3.
Amar Das.
4.
Ram' Das.
5.
Arjun.
6.
Tegh
Bahadur
(with,
emendations by Gobind)
perhaps,
The Bhagats or saints, and others who contributed agreeably to the ordinary copies of the Granth, are enumerated below
:
Kabir (the well-known
Ram.anand Bairagi (a well-known reformer) 14. Parmanand. 2. Trilochan, a Brahman. 3. Beni. 15. Sur Das (a blind man). 4. Rav Das, a Chamar, or 16. Miran Bai, a Bhagatni, 1.
13.
reformer)
5.
or holy woman.
leather dresser. a Chhipa, cloth printer.
Namdev,
or
17.
18. Satta,
Dhanna, a Jat. 7. Shah Farid, a Muham-
madan pir, or saint. Jaidev, a Brahman.
9.
Bhikan.
19.
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Sain, a barber. 11. Pipa (a Jogi?). 12. Sadhna, a butcher.
10.
'Doms' or chan-
who
recited before Arjun. Sundar Das, Rababi, or player upon a stringed instrument. He is not properly one of the ters
6.
8.
Balwand, and
Bhagats.
5th. The 'Bhog'. In Sanskrit this word means to enjoy anything, but it is commonly used to denote the conclusion of any sacred writing, both by Hindus and Sikhs. The Bhog occupies about 66 pages, and besides the writings of Nanak and Arjun, of Kabir, Shah Farid, and other reformers, it contains the compositions of nine Bhats or rhapsodists who attached themselves to Amar Das, Ram Das, and Arjun. The Bhog commences with 4 sloks in Sanskrit by Nanak, which are followed by 67 Sanskrit sloks in one metre by Arjun, and then by 24 in another metre by the same Guru. There are also 23 sloks in Punjabi or Hindi by Arjun, which contain praises of Amritsar. These are soon followed by 243 sloks by Kabir, and 130 by Shah Farid, and others, containing some sayings Afterwards the writings of Kail and the of Arjun. other Bhats follow, intermixed with portions by Arjun, and so on to the end. The nine Bhats who contributed to the Bhog are
named as follows 1.
:
Bhikha, a follovver of Amar Das.
2.
Kail, a follower of Ram
Das.