ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>SR&#298 SANT RATAN M&#256L</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 SANT RATAN M&#256L</i> by Bh&#257&#299 LaI Chand, containing biographical sketches in Punjabi of the Sev&#257panth&#299 saints, completed in 1919 Bk/AD 1862 at Amritsar, was first published in 1924 and reprinted in 1954 by Bh&#257&#299 H&#299r&#257 Si&#7749gh Mahant, Sev&#257panth&#299 A&#7693&#7693a&#7751 Sh&#257h&#299 Sabh&#257, Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257. The voluminous work, comprising 563 printed pages, deals with the lives of prominent personages connected with the Sev&#257panth&#299 sect, providing some incidental information about contemporary personalities such as Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751jit Si&#7749gh, B&#257b&#257 S&#257hib Si&#7749gh Bed&#299 of &#362n&#257 and B&#257b&#257 Va&#7693bh&#257g Si&#7749gh. The accounts of the saints are hagiographical in nature. The book also includes <i>Babek S&#257r</i>, popularly called <i>Bh&#257&#299 Day&#257 R&#257m A&#7693&#7693a&#7751 Sh&#257h Prashanotr&#299</i> (pp.223-252). This is a philosophical discourse between two well-known Sev&#257panth&#299 saints, Bh&#257&#299 Day&#257 R&#257m and A&#7693&#7693a&#7751 Sh&#257h, the former raising questions and the latter answering them. The points at issue mainly relate to Ved&#257nta and to Sikh teaching and philosophy.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Gurmukh Si&#7749gh, <i>Sev&#257panth&#299&#257&#7749 d&#299 Pañj&#257b&#299 S&#257hit n&#363&#7749 Den</i>. Patiala, 1986<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gurmukh Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>