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In the Granth of Guru Gobind Singh, the authors offer new insights into the Sikh scripture Dasam Patshah Ka Gra?th , or the Dasam Gra?th, which has traditionally been attributed to Guru Gobind Singh.
While many studies have adopted a polemic approach and focused on the authorship of the text, this book takes a multi-disciplinary approach and considers the relationship of the scripture with the newly discovered manuscripts, apocryphal translations, and relics. ...
The Adi Granth (‘original book’), primary scripture of the Sikhs, comprises approximately 3,000 hymns. About 2400 of these were written by the six Sikh Gurus who lived in the Punjab between 1469 and 1675. The remaining hymns are attributed to fifteen bards associated with the sixteenth century Sikh court and fifteen non-Sikh saint-poets, known in the Sikh tradition as Bhagats (‘devotees’), who lived between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Although ...