ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GOSH&#7788&#256&#7748 MIHARV&#256N J&#298 K&#298&#256&#7748</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>GOSH&#7788&#256&#7748 MIHARV&#256N J&#298 K&#298&#256&#7748</i>, by So&#7693h&#299 HariJ&#299 (d. 1696), is a biography of the author's father, So&#7693h&#299 Miharb&#257n, written in anecdotal style of the <i>janam s&#257kh&#299s</i>. Biographical details, however, are sparse; the work mainly contains theological discourses of So&#7693h&#299 Miharb&#257n and his interpretations of <i>gurb&#257&#7751&#299</i>, the sacred utterances of the Gur&#363s. The author describes Miharb&#257n as an incarnation of Shukdeva, a mythological Hindu sage, who was reborn (as Miharb&#257n) with the sole aim of explaining the <i>gurb&#257&#7751&#299</i>. The exposition presented is however Harij&#299's own and does not always conform to Sikh principles and beliefs. There are 45 <i>gosh&#7789&#299s</i> or discourses in all. A poetic composition at the end, a panegyric on So&#7693h&#299 Miharb&#257n, probably by Harij&#299 himself, is described as 46th <i>gosh&#7789&#299</i> in some manuscripts. The language of the <i>Gosh&#7789&#257&#7749</i> generally is a mixture of Hindi and Punjabi, though at places one does come across good specimens of chaste Punjabi prose of the time. The work has not so far been published. Two copies in manuscript form are preserved, one each in Central Public Library of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, (catalogue No. 2527) and Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar (catalogue No. 3510). The latter manuscript was, however, lost in cataclysmic events of 1984.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh ed., <i>Janam S&#257kh&#299 Parampr&#257</i>. Patiala, 1969<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Krishn&#257 Kum&#257ri B&#257&#7749sal<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>