ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GRANTH GURBIL&#256S P&#256TSH&#256H&#298 6 </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>GRANTH GURBIL&#256S P&#256TSH&#256H&#298 6 (granth</i> = volume, book; <i>gurbil&#257s</i> = life story of the Gur&#363; <i>p&#257tsh&#257h&#299 6</i> = the spiritual preceptor, sixth in the order of succession), is a versified account, in Punjabi, of the life of Gur&#363 Hargobind, N&#257nak VI. The manuscript, preserved in the Pañj&#257b University Library, Cha&#7751&#7693&#299ga&#7771h, under accession No. 1176, is of anonymous authorship. The date of its composition is also not known. The condition of the paper, the formation of the letters and the style of writing point to a comparatively recent date. The manuscript comprises 135 folios, each folio having 30 (fifteen + fifteen) lines. <i>Chaupa&#299</i> and <i>dohir&#257</i> are the metres most commonly used, with occasional interspersing of <i>pau&#7771&#299, ras&#257val nish&#257n&#299</i> and <i>nar&#257j</i>.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contents of the <i>Gurbil&#257s</i> are almost identical with those of the other <i>Gurbil&#257s</i>, commonly attributed to Kav&#299 Sohan. There are many dates given in the text but most of them do not tally with those commonly accepted in the Sikh tradition. The author nowhere refers to the works he relied upon, though he does state that Gur&#363 Hargobind's life had been presented before him in great detail and that he was narrating it only in brief. The entire volume is divided into several parts, each part dealing with some important episode from the Gur&#363's life.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Dharam Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>