Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Recorded or compiled by others
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 8 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~320,000 words · 1,542 passages
Cite this work
- APAAdi Granth. (n.d.). The Adi Granth (Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs) [Sri Guru Granth Sahib]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-granth/the-adi-granth-holy-scriptures-of-the-sikhs
- MLAAdi Granth. The Adi Granth (Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs) [Sri Guru Granth Sahib]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-granth/the-adi-granth-holy-scriptures-of-the-sikhs.
- ChicagoAdi Granth. The Adi Granth (Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs) [Sri Guru Granth Sahib]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-granth/the-adi-granth-holy-scriptures-of-the-sikhs.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The scripture of the Sikhs: hymns of the Gurus, almost all in verse and meant to be sung, arranged by the musical raga to which each is set.
Context and history
Guru Arjan compiled it in 1604, and it has a feature worth knowing: hymns by Hindu and Muslim saints — Kabir, Ravidas, Farid — stand alongside those of the Gurus, not as an appendix. In 1708 Guru Gobind Singh declared that the book itself would be the perpetual Guru, and since then the community treats it as a living teacher rather than a text.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
The Gods and NarasB and Munis tell them, having worshipped. Some tell (and some) begin to tell them. Some having told, told them, rise and go off. So many creatures are made and others (still) he makes. Yet nobody, nobody is able to tell (his qualities). As great as he pleases, so great he becomes (by self-expansion). 0 iNanak ! that True one (=God) knows it. If some contentious man tell (it) : he is written down as a fool above fools.6 What is that gate, what that house, in which sitting he supports all V There are many innumerable musical instruments and sounds ; how many are the players ? How many Bags with the Ragiuis are sung and how many are the singers? To thee sing wind, water, fire, at (thy) door sings Dharm-raja. The Citraguptas sing (to thee), who write down continually, know and weigh the religious deeds. (To thee) sings Isar (Shiva), Brahma, the Devi ; having always remembered (thee) they obtain honour. At thy gate sings Indra with the gods sitting on Indra's throne. 1 ^rMTBfafT a trader occupied in any business. These are the pious disciples, who are called in the Granth 7TW $ ^T"MT?)§; the &ti\6> °r store-houses, are the TTPT, or samts, from whom the name may be obtained. 2 signifies here "measure " and is the same as Trf^TfJTJf , as proved by other passages of the Granth. 3 Compare v. 3. 4 *HTfef3T " *° te'V the qualities or the praises of the name, the greatness of the name. B Naras, a kind of centaurs, with the limbs of horses and human bodies.…