ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JANAM S&#256KH&#298 SR&#298 GUR N&#256NAKU S&#256H K&#298</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>JANAM S&#256KH&#298 SR&#298 GUR N&#256NAKU S&#256H K&#298</i> by Sant D&#257s Chhibbar is a versified biography of Gur&#363 N&#257nak (1469-1539), founder of the Sikh faith, based primarily on <i>Janam S&#257kh&#299 Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257</i>. A manuscript copy of the work is preserved in the Central Public Library, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, under MS. No. 2737. This script is dated 1838 Bk/AD 1781. Two more manuscripts were preserved in the Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until it perished in the army action in 1984. A published version of the work, based on all the three manuscripts then available, has been brought out by Punjabi University, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, in 1985. In the style of <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>, Chhibbar here makes B&#257l&#257 narrate in the presence of Gur&#363 A&#7749gad events relating to Gur&#363 N&#257nak's life, Pai&#7771&#257 Mo<u>kh</u>&#257 being the scribe. According to <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i> it took Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257 and Bh&#257&#299 Pai&#7771&#257 Mo<u>kh</u>&#257 77 days to complete the work; according to Chhibbar twenty-seven. Stories in the two texts are common though B&#257l&#257's <i>Janam S&#257kh&#299</i> is in prose and Chhibbar's in verse. Written in Dohir&#257 Chaupa&#299 metres, the latter is a fine example of refined poetry.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Dharam Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>