ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MAHIM&#256 PRAK&#256SH</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>MAHIM&#256 PRAK&#256SH</i>, by Sar&#363p D&#257s Bhall&#257, is a versified account, in Gurmukh&#299 script, of the lives of the ten Gur&#363s, completed according to inner evidence, in 1833 Bk/AD 1776. Three copies of the manuscript. are still extant : one (No. 176) in the Languages Department, Punjab, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, the second (No. 792/M) in the Punjab State Archives, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257, and third (No. 3200) in the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College Library, Amritsar. A fourth copy of the manuscript existed in the Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, until it perished in 1984. The work has since been published (1970) in two volumes by the Languages Department, Punjab, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257. The first volume (pp. 348) contains sixty-five <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> relating to the life of Gur&#363 N&#257nak, whereas the second volume (pp. 900) comprises another 172 <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> of which sixteen deal with the life of Gur&#363 A&#7749gad, thirty-two are about Gur&#363 Amar D&#257s, eight about Gur&#363 R&#257m D&#257s, twenty-two each about Gur&#363 Arjan and Gur&#363 Hargobind, twenty-two about Gur&#363 Har R&#257i, four about Gur&#363 Har Krishan, nineteen about Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur and twenty-seven about Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. At the end of these there is one more <i>s&#257kh&#299</i> about Band&#257 Si&#7749gh Bah&#257dur (1670-1716). The main sources utilized by the author, according to his own testimony, were <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i> and <i>&#256di S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749</i>, and information received from the descendants of the Gur&#363s and some other prominent Sikhs. This is the first work of its kind giving a connected account of the lives of all the Gur&#363s. However, it is not plain history, nor is it free from inaccuracies of fact.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">M. S. &#256hl&#363w&#257l&#299&#257<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>