ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>CHALITAR JOT&#298 JOTI SAM&#256VA&#7750E KE</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279<i>CHALITAR JOT&#298 JOTI SAM&#256VA&#7750E KE</i>, one of a collection of seven unpublished Punjabi manuscripts held in the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College at Amritsar under Catalogue No. 15'79E. Comprising a bare three folios (306-308), it is divided into two sections. The first part (ff. 306-307) entitled "Verv&#257 Guri&#257&#299 k&#257 Likhi&#257, " lit. details recorded of the gur&#363ship, gives the duration for which each of the ten Gur&#363s occupied the holy seat, followed by a vague remark that 24 years and 3 months have elapsed since he passed away, implying thereby that the writing took place 24 years and 3 months after the death (in 1708) of the tenth and last of the Gur&#363s, Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh, which takes the date of the compilation of the manuscript to 1732. The second part, ff. 307-08, records dates of the passing away of six of the Ten Gur&#363s, Gur&#363 N&#257nak, Gur&#363 A&#7749gad Dev, Gur&#363 Hargobind, Gur&#363 Har Krishan, Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur and Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. The author has also mentioned the day and time of Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur's execution - Thursday, about 1 p. m. The dates given are generally reliable. The manuscript concludes with the statement that Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh had passed on the office of Gur&#363 to the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Sarmukh Si&#7749gh Amole<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>