ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HARIJAS GRANTH</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>HARIJAS GRANTH</i>, by Bh&#257&#299 Darb&#257r&#299, is a collection of verse the first part (ff. 1-530) of which is, in imitation of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, cast in <i>r&#257gas</i>, totalling thirty-four in number, adding M&#257lkau&#7749s, M&#257lv&#257 and Hi&#7751&#7693ol to the thirty-one employed in the Sikh Scripture. The only known manuscript of the <i>Harijas Granth</i>, comprising 918 folios, which has so far remained unpublished and which was, according to internal evidence (f 760), completed on Thursday, Je&#7789h <i>vad&#299</i> 13, 1860 Bk/20 May 1803, is preserved in the Gurdw&#257r&#257 Bh&#257&#299 Darb&#257r&#299 at the village of Vairoke in Far&#299dko&#7789 district. Bh&#257&#299 Darb&#257r&#299 was a follower of Bh&#257&#299 Abhai R&#257m who was fifth in the line from B&#257b&#257 Miharb&#257n, leader of the schismatic M&#299&#7751&#257 group of the Sikhs, and who later received the rites of Sikh baptism at the hands of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh and came to be known as Abhai Si&#7749gh. The <i>Harijas Granth</i> begins with the Sikh M&#363l Mantra, here recorded in a somewhat changed order. Then follows a hymn attributed to Mahal&#257 7 or N&#257nak VII which here stands for Harij&#299. Then there is a <i>&#347lok&#257</i> by Bh&#257&#299 Darb&#257r&#299 in which he pays laudation to God and then to the first five Gur&#363s, thereafter praising the M&#299&#7751&#257s who had broken away from the main Sikh tradition and set up a separate sect. The first major composition, untitled, imitates Gur&#363 N&#257nak's <i>Japu</i> (<i>j&#299</i>) and comprises like the latter 38 stanzas. Whereas the first part (<i>ff</i>. 1-530) of the <i>Granth</i> contains hymns in different metres, forms and <i>r&#257gas</i>, the latter part (ff. 531-918) is not set in any <i>r&#257ga</i> and is titled <i>Parch&#299&#257&#7749 Bh&#257gat&#257&#7749 K&#299&#257&#7749</i>, containing accounts of thirty saints such as Dhr&#363, Prahl&#257d, Janak, S&#299t&#257, Daropad&#299, Arjun, &#362dho, R&#257m&#257nand, Jaidev, N&#257mdev, Trilochan, Kab&#299r, Ravid&#257s, Sadhn&#257, Sain, P&#299p&#257 and S&#363r D&#257s. The <i>Granth</i> represents an amalgam of Sikh and Hindu tenets. Some of a total of twenty <i>v&#257rs</i> in the first part of the <i>Granth</i> are entirely devoted to eulogizing the various incarnations of God accepted in Hinduism. The author has stressed the transience of this world, and impressed on man need to be detached. Crucial is the role of the Gur&#363 in helping man in his spiritual pursuit. The language of the <i>Granth</i> is a mixture of Punjabi and S&#257dh Bh&#257kh&#257; the script is Gurmukh&#299.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>