ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>PARCH&#298&#256&#7748 SEV&#256 D&#256S</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>PARCH&#298&#256&#7748 SEV&#256 D&#256S</i>, variously titled as <i>S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749 Sev&#257 D&#257s Ud&#257s&#299, Mahal&#257&#7749 Das&#257&#7749 k&#299&#257&#7749 S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749, S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749 D&#257s&#257&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299&#257&#7749 K&#299&#257&#7749</i> or <i>Parch&#299&#257&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 l0</i>, is an eighteenth century collection of 50 <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> or anecdotes from the lives of the Ten Gur&#363s. Only one <i>s&#257kh&#299</i> each, relates to the first eight Gur&#363s; four are connected with the Ninth, Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur, and the remaining 38 narrate incidents from the life of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. Nothing is known about the author, Sev&#257 D&#257s, except that he, according to the colophon, belonged to the Ud&#257s&#299 sect, which categorically distinguishes him from Sev&#257 R&#257m, the Sev&#257panth&#299 writer. Several extant manuscripts of this work attest to its popularity. The Bh&#257sh&#257 Vibh&#257g, Punjab, first published it in 1961, and a second edition was brought out in 1978. The work is hagiographical rather than historical in nature, although several episodes agree with similar accounts in other sources such as the Gurbil&#257ses and Bh&#257&#299 Santokh Si&#7749gh's <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. The language is old Punjabi. The <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i> are narrative in style, but didactic in purpose. Almost all of them convey some tenet or the other of Sikhism. For example, the 4th <i>s&#257kh&#299</i>, in which Gur&#363 R&#257m D&#257s, answering B&#257b&#257 Sr&#299 Chand's question, says that he had grown a long beard in order to wipe with it the feet of holy men like him, teaches humility. In several of the <i>s&#257kh&#299s</i>, Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh reiterates how offerings made to the Gur&#363 or his <i>masands</i> are not to be treated as personal property, but are held in trust for the Sikhs as a whole.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Randh&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Ud&#257s&#299 Sikh&#257&#7749 d&#299 Vithi&#257</i>. Amritsar, 2116 Bk<BR> <li class="C1"> Gurmukh Si&#7749gh, <i>Sev&#257panth&#299&#257&#7749 d&#299 Pañj&#257b&#299 S&#257hit n&#363&#7749 De&#7751</i>. Patiala,1986<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurdev Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>