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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
Chapter 2 maps out Guru Nanak’s poetic repertoire spread across the 1,430 pages of the GGS. Most of his 974 compositions are framed in nineteen of the thirty-one Guru Granth rāga sections. The chapter proceeds sequentially through each rāga. Thus we are introduced to some of Guru Nanak’s major compositions such as his two acrostics Paṭī Likhī in Rāga Asa and Dakhaṇī Oankār in Rāga Ramkali, his twelve-month Bārah Māhā poem in Rāga Tukhari, his three ballads in Rāgas Majh, Asa, and Malar, his Siddhagoshta in Rāga Ramkali, and several of his shorter works like the Babur hymns. Many of these genres were popular in the romantic and devotional literature of medieval India. By sampling Guru Nanak’s works in the order that they are framed in the GGS, audiences are guided through the wide range of his oeuvre, while giving them a real feel for it.
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