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APP 3.
GOBIND'S LETTER OF RUI^S
XX
343
The Rdhat Nama of Guru Gohind. (Extracts from, and abstracts of portions.)
Written for Dariyai Udasi, and i-epeated to Prahlad Singh at Apchalnagar (Nader on the Godavery).
The Guru, being seated at Apchalnagar, spake to Prahlad Singh, saying, that through the favour of Nanak there was a sect or faith in the world for which rules (rahat) should be established.
A Sikh who puts a cap (topi)
on his head, shall die seven deaths of dropsy. Whosoever wears a thread round his neck is on the way to damnation. [It is forbidden to take off the turban (pag) while eating, to have intercourse with Minas, Massandis, and Kurimars (children slayers) and to play at chess with '
,
women.
No prayers are to be offered up without using the name of the Guru, and he who heeds not the Guru, and serves not the diSciples
faithfully,
is
a
Mlechh
indeed.
A Sikh who does not acknowledge the Hukamnama (requisition for benevolences or contributions) Guru shall fall under displeasure.]
of the
First the Guru {Granth or Book) and Khalsa, which I have placed in the world, Whosoever denies or betrays either shall be driven forth and dashed into hell. [It is forbidden to wear clothing dyed with safRower (i.e. of a 'Suhi' colour) to wear charms on the head, ,
bre^k the fast without reciting the Jap (the prayer of Nanak) to neglect reading prayers in the morning, to take, the evening meal without reciting the Rah Ras, to leave Akal Purukh (the Timeless ^Being) and worship other Gods, to worship stones, to make obeisance to any not a Sikh, to forget the Granth, and to deceive to
,
the Khalsa. All Hukamnamas (calls'for tithes or contributions; given by the posterity of Nanak, of Angad, and of Amar Das, shall be heeded as his own whosoever disregards them shall perish. :
1 Referring partciularly to Hindu ascetics; but perhaps, also to the Muhammadans, who formerly wore skull-caps alone, and now generally wind their turbans round a covering The Sikh contempt for either kind of 'topi' has of the kind. been thrown into thS shade by theii* repugnance, in common with all other Indians, to the English cap or hat.
GOBIND'S LETTER OF RUI^S
XX
343
The Rdhat Nama of Guru Gohind. (Extracts from, and abstracts of portions.)
Written for Dariyai Udasi, and i-epeated to Prahlad Singh at Apchalnagar (Nader on the Godavery).
The Guru, being seated at Apchalnagar, spake to Prahlad Singh, saying, that through the favour of Nanak there was a sect or faith in the world for which rules (rahat) should be established.
A Sikh who puts a cap (topi)
on his head, shall die seven deaths of dropsy. Whosoever wears a thread round his neck is on the way to damnation. [It is forbidden to take off the turban (pag) while eating, to have intercourse with Minas, Massandis, and Kurimars (children slayers) and to play at chess with '
,
women.
No prayers are to be offered up without using the name of the Guru, and he who heeds not the Guru, and serves not the diSciples
faithfully,
is
a
Mlechh
indeed.
A Sikh who does not acknowledge the Hukamnama (requisition for benevolences or contributions) Guru shall fall under displeasure.]
of the
First the Guru {Granth or Book) and Khalsa, which I have placed in the world, Whosoever denies or betrays either shall be driven forth and dashed into hell. [It is forbidden to wear clothing dyed with safRower (i.e. of a 'Suhi' colour) to wear charms on the head, ,
bre^k the fast without reciting the Jap (the prayer of Nanak) to neglect reading prayers in the morning, to take, the evening meal without reciting the Rah Ras, to leave Akal Purukh (the Timeless ^Being) and worship other Gods, to worship stones, to make obeisance to any not a Sikh, to forget the Granth, and to deceive to
,
the Khalsa. All Hukamnamas (calls'for tithes or contributions; given by the posterity of Nanak, of Angad, and of Amar Das, shall be heeded as his own whosoever disregards them shall perish. :
1 Referring partciularly to Hindu ascetics; but perhaps, also to the Muhammadans, who formerly wore skull-caps alone, and now generally wind their turbans round a covering The Sikh contempt for either kind of 'topi' has of the kind. been thrown into thS shade by theii* repugnance, in common with all other Indians, to the English cap or hat.
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