ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JAV&#256L&#256 SI&#7748GH SANT ( 1878-1938)</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 NAME="keywords" CONTENT="JAVL,SIDGH,SANT,Person,Person"> <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">&#65279JAV&#256L&#256 SI&#7748GH, SANT ( 1878-1938), a pious and learned Sikh who also worked as a royal tutor for a time, was born at the village of Dh&#257m&#299&#257&#7749 Kal&#257&#7749, in Hoshi&#257rpur district of the Punjab, on 26 October 1878. He learnt to read Gurmukh&#299 and the Sikh Scripture at the hands of an Ud&#257s&#299 priest, Gi&#257n&#299 Prem D&#257s, and continued further religious study under different scholars and theologians, including Sant <u>Kh</u>az&#257n Si&#7749gh Virakt of Sukkho in R&#257walpi&#7751&#7693&#299 district (now in Pakistan) . The death register of the Municipal Committee of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 where he died shows him, in the parentage column, as <i>chel&#257</i> or disciple of Sant Gul&#257b Si&#7749gh. Such was Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh's reputation as a scholar that he was in 1905 appointed to instruct Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Bh&#363pinder Si&#7749gh of Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 (1891-1938), then a young prince of 14, in Sikh texts and doctrine. Brought up in the austere way of a Nirmal&#257 <i>s&#257dh&#363</i>, Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh now adopted the attire of a courtier, though he remained at heart a deeply religious person. Collection of rare articles became one of his hobbies. He also wrote humorous verse in Braj. However, none of his writings has survived, except a six-page <i>S&#299harf&#299 Ved&#257nt Svar&#363p Bodhan&#299</i>, published in 1892. It is an acrostic in Punjabi, in <i>baint</i> metre, based on letters of the Persian alphabet.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sant Jav&#257l&#257 Si&#7749gh died at Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257 on 24 March 1938 in a stampede occurring in the funeral procession of his own pupil, Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Bh&#363pinder Si&#7749gh.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Ganesh&#257 Si&#7749gh, Mahant, <i>Nirmal Bh&#363shan arth&#257t Itih&#257s Nirmal Bhekh</i>. Amritsar, n.d.<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gursewak Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>