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<p class="C1">&#65279BHAGVANT SI&#7748GH HAR&#298J&#298, BH&#256&#298 (1892-1968), a lover of game, horticulturist and scholar, was born on 15 February 1892 to the erudition of his celebrated father, Bh&#257&#299 K&#257hn Si&#7749gh, of N&#257bh&#257, the creator of the immortal <i>Gurushabad Ratn&#257kar Mah&#257n Kosh</i>. Unobtrusively, and in his characteristically gentle and self-abnegating manner, Bhagvant Si&#7749gh carried the family learning into the second generation. His home provided the best education then available to a young man, though he did attend formally the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College at Amritsar, then the premier educational institution of the Sikhs. On 9 November 1915, he married B&#299b&#299 Harn&#257m Kaur, daughter of J&#299van Si&#7749gh editor of the <i><u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 Sev&#257k</i> of Amritsar, who was herself a poet of repute and who appreciated and sustained her husband's scholarly interests. Equally vital was Bhagvant Si&#7749gh's experience watching his father working on the <i>Mah&#257n Kosh</i>, meeting with scholars in different fields who came to see him and listening to or joining the learned discussions that constantly went on in his father's study. This provided him with much valuable training in the art of lexicography.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"Har&#299j&#299", as he was affectionately called by his friends and admirers, made <i>Dasam Granth</i>, Book of the Tenth Master, the focus of his study, and prepared a verse index of it which was published posthumously by the Punjabi University, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257. This is a work which enjoys high prestige in Sikh letters for its technical perfection and range of knowledge. Another of his books in the field of <i>Dasam Granth</i> scholarship, <i>Dasam Granth d&#257 B&#257&#7751&#299 Beor&#257</i>, appeared in 1991 (publisher : Punjabi University, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257). An earlier publication was <i>Vidhi Nikhedh</i> (a common man's book of do's and don'ts), August 1919.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bh&#257&#299 Bhagvant Si&#7749gh died on 9 October 1968 after a protracted illness.</p>
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