ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>N&#256NAK S&#362RAJODE JANAM S&#256KH&#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>N&#256NAK S&#362RAJODE JANAM S&#256KH&#298</i>, by Ga&#7751esh&#257 Si&#7749gh Bed&#299, is an account in verse of the life of Gur&#363 N&#257nak, founder of the Sikh faith. The metaphor of the rising sun (<i>s&#363r&#257jode = s&#363rya/s&#363r&#257j</i> meaning sun and <i>ud&#257y&#257/ude</i> meaning rising) in the title has been used for Gur&#363 N&#257nak whose birth as says Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s heralded daylight dispelling the darkness of night. The work, running into 560 pages in printed form, was completed in 1906 Bk/AD 1849 at Jamm&#363 and first published at the Raghun&#257th Press, Jamm&#363, under the patronage of R&#257j&#257 Har&#299 Chand and reprinted in 1952 Bk/AD 1895 at the Chashm&#257-i-N&#363r Press, Amritsar. It was also published in Devan&#257gr&#299 script, in 1956 Bk/AD 1899 (Bh&#257rat J&#299van Press, K&#257sh&#299), under the patronage of R&#257j&#257 Bijai Chand of Bilaspur. The book is divided into two parts-first part comprising sixty-five <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> (anecdotes) and the second fifty-eight. The prologue alludes to the prophecy in the <i>Skanda Pur&#257&#7751a</i> concerning the appearance of Gur&#363 N&#257nak in the <i>kaliyug</i> (the dark age) as an incarnation of God. Almost all the details of Gur&#363 N&#257nak's life given in the <i>S&#363rajode</i> coincide with those in the <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i> which is in prose. A few <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> included in this book, but which do not occur in the <i>B&#257l&#257</i> text have been borrowed from <i>Gi&#257n Ratn&#257val&#299</i> and Bh&#257&#299 Santokh Si&#7749gh's <i>N&#257nak Prak&#257sh</i>.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The language of the work is S&#257dh Bh&#257kh&#257, but the script is Gurmukh&#299. Verses of Gur&#363 N&#257nak are frequently quoted in the text. Several different metres such as <i>k&#257bitt, dohir&#257, nish&#257n&#299</i> and <i>chaup&#257&#299</i> have been employed by the poet. The style is dramatic as every now and then the writer uses the phrase: "Thus spake B&#257l&#257 Sandh&#363." B&#257l&#257 Sandh&#363, supposed to have been a life-long companion of Gur&#363 N&#257nak, was meant to be narrating these s&#257kh&#299s in the presence of Gur&#363 A&#7749gad while Bh&#257&#299 Pai&#7771&#257 Mokh&#257 was recording them.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Man&#299 Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Gi&#257n Ratn&#257val&#299</i>. Lahore, 1947Bk<BR> <li class="C1"> V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, ed., <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1982<BR> <li class="C1"> Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh, <i>Janam S&#257kh&#299 Sr&#299 Gur&#363 N&#257nak Dev J&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1962<BR> <li class="C1"> Ganesh&#257 Si&#7749gh, Mahant, <i>Sr&#299 Gur&#363 N&#257nak S&#363ryoday</i>. Amritsar, 1895<BR> <li class="C1"> Jagjit Singh, <i>A Critical and Comparative Study of the Janam Sakhies of Guru Nanak Dev up to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century</i>. Chandigarh, 1967<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Jagj&#299t Si&#7749gh; Ropa&#7771<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>