ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MIHARB&#256N (1581-1640)</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="MIHARBN,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">&#65279MIHARB&#256N, (1581-1640), the popular name of Manohar D&#257s, who was the grandson of Gur&#363 R&#257m D&#257s, fourth in spiritual descent from Gur&#363 N&#257nak, and son of Prith&#299 Chand, the elder brother of Gur&#363 Arjan, N&#257nak V. Born on 9 January 1581, Miharb&#257n spent his early years in the company of his uncle, Gur&#363 Arjan, and imbibed from him scholarly inclination as well as literary taste. He was a man of ascetic temperament. To wean him from his solitary ways, his parents got him married in 1595. He had three sons &#8212 Karan Mall or Krishan Mall, Chaturbhuj and Harj&#299. In 1618, his father, Prith&#299 Chand, who had set up his own rival seat protesting against the installation of his younger brother, Arjan, as the Gur&#363 of the Sikhs, nominated him his successor. This was a difficult position for Miharb&#257n, but by his knowledge of the sacred lore and his ability to compose religious verse, he attracted some following. He went out preaching and spent several years in the hill district around K&#257&#7749g&#7771&#257. Then he came to the M&#257lv&#257 and sojourned in the area for about five years. He passed the last years of his life at Muhammad&#299pur, in the Kas&#363r sub-division of Lahore district, now in Pakistan, which he had made his headquarters and where he died on 18 January 1640.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miharb&#257n wrote in Punjabi prose a <i>janam s&#257kh&#299 </i> or life-story of Gur&#363 N&#257nak entitled <i>Poth&#299 Sachkha&#7751&#7693 </i>. The biographical detail is scanty and the main purpose of the author seems to be to provide interpretations of some of Gur&#363 N&#257nak's hymns in a framework of gosts or discourses. On the <i>Japu</i>, the opening <i>b&#257&#7751&#299</i> of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, the book contains a full-scale commentary. This may well be the first recorded exposition of the <i>Japu </i>. Among the other works attributed to Miharb&#257n are <i>Sukhman&#299 Saha&#7749sarn&#257m&#257, V&#257r P&#299ra&#7749 Ki, Gos&#7789 Kab&#299r J&#299o K&#299</i>, and <i>Gos&#7789&#257&#7749 Bh&#257gta&#7749 K&#299&#257n</i>.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh, <i>Manohar D&#257s Miharb&#257n : J&#299van ate Rachn&#257</i>. Patiala, 1974<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh <br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>