ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SR&#298 GUR&#362 GRANTH PRAY&#256Y</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>SR&#298 GUR&#362 GRANTH PRAY&#256Y</i>, a glossary of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, is an anonymous and undated manuscript preserved in the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 College at Amritsar under catalogue No. 1473. It comprises 147 folios, 24 cms x 16 cms, with 21 lines to a page, and is possibly a late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century work. Although the word <i>pray&#257y</i> would signify a glossary or lexicon, this work is not a dictionary in the strict sense of the term, for it lacks the alphabetical order and attempts neither etymology nor uncovering varying shades of meanings of the words. Words chosen for explanation are in fact listed in the order in which they occur in the text. For instance, the first entry in <i>Pray&#257y</i> is on "Satin&#257m Kart&#257 Purakh" which words figure in the very first line of the first composition, <i>Japu</i>, in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib. Then follow words and phrases picked from succeeding lines or stanzas. Meanings given are those applicable to the textual use of the words. It is but rarely that an alternative meaning has been recorded. On the back side of folio 147 are mentioned the names of scholars whose works the author had studied. Among them : Bh&#257&#299 Man&#299 Si&#7749gh, S&#363rat Si&#7749gh Gurd&#257s Si&#7749gh, Sant&#257 Si&#7749gh, Amar Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 Chand&#257 Si&#7749gh, and Bh&#257&#299 Sant Si&#7749gh. The last two unnumbered pages contain the mythologically accepted divisions of time and their duration.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Kirp&#257l Si&#7749gh, <i>A Catalogue of Punjabi and Urdu Manuscripts</i>. Amritsar, 1962<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Sarmukh Si&#7749gh Amole<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>