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Some Notes on Hindi Poetry in the Punjab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

L.D. Barnett
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Long ago it was recognized by color che sanno that the Ādi Granth of the Sikhs, the Bible of the Panjab, began with the Western Hindi hymns and prose preachings of Guru Nānak (1469–1538), and thence grew to its present vast proportions by the accretion of his successors' utterances, in which the language gradually changed to Panjabi. On the other hand, the Dasam Gurugranth SĀhib of Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh pontiff, which is not included in the Ādi Granth, is composed in more or less standard Western Hindi.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 73 - 75
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957

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page 73 note 1 For example, the prose Sikh hagiologies of Lāi Singh Narottam and Ātmā Singh, both entitled Gur-bhagat-māl, are more Hindi in style than Panjabi.

page 74 note 1 An error for Kālindī.