Description |
1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Note on Transliteration; 1 Sikhs and Their Scripture; The Adi Granth; The Early Sikh Community; The Plan of the Book; 2 Writings on Sikh Scripture: An Overview; Eighteenth-Century Accounts; Nineteenth-Century Accounts; Twentieth-Century Accounts; 3 The Beginning of the Scriptural Tradition; The Guru Harsahai Pothi; The Goindval Pothis; 4 The Expansion of the Scriptural Text; MS 1245; The Kartarpur Pothi; 5 Toward the Adi Granth; The Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts; The Adi Granth; 6 The Emerging Structure of the Adi Granth; Rag as the Organizing Principle of the Adi Granth |
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Evolution of the Structure of the Adi GranthThe Adi Granth and Other Scriptures; 7 The Adi Granth and the Issue of the Bhagat Bani; Date of Inclusion of the Bhagat Bani; The Purpose of Incorporation of the Bhagat Bani; The Selection and Evolution of the Corpus; The Status of the Bhagat Bani; 8 The Guru Granth Sahib; Three Centuries of Sikh Scriptural History; The Authority of the Adi Granth; Future Prospects; Notes; Glossary of Punjabi Terms; A; B; C; D; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Y |
Summary |
The Adi Granth - the primary scripture of the Sikhs - comprises approximately 3000 hymns. This work attempts to construct a comprehensive picture of the making of Sikh "canon", drawing on the recently discovered early manuscripts as well as the extensive secondary literature on the topic |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Ādi-Granth -- History
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Ādi-Granth -- Criticism, Textual
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Ādi-Granth fast |
Subject |
Sikhism -- Sacred books -- History
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RELIGION -- Sikhism.
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Sikhism -- Sacred books
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780198029878 |
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019802987X |
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0195130243 |
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9780195130249 |
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1423757572 |
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9781423757573 |
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