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<p class="C1">&#65279&#7788AHIKAN, a seventeenth-century poet, was the son of Ra&#7749g&#299l D&#257s, a Chop&#7771&#257 Khatr&#299 of Jal&#257lpur, in present-day Gujr&#257t district of Pakistan. A soldier by profession, he rendered into Hindi verse <i>Amar Ko&#347a</i> and "A&#347vamedha Parva" of the <i>Mah&#257bh&#257rata</i>. He titled the former work <i>Ratan D&#257m</i>. Several Sikh scholars such as B&#257b&#257 Sumer Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 K&#257hn Si&#7749gh and Bh&#257&#299 V&#299r Si&#7749gh count &#7788ahikan among Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's poets, although there is no explicit reference to the Gur&#363 in his work. His <i>A&#347vamedha Parva</i> is dated 1726 Bk/AD 1669 by the poet himself. It is possible that as the work of rendering the ancient texts, into Bh&#257kh&#257, in Gurmukh&#299 script under the patronage of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh was in progress &#7788ahikan's manuscripts were brought to him by the poet himself or by someone else. Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh may have got them transcribed into Gurmukh&#299. The manuscript of <i>A&#347vamedha Parva</i> preserved in the Sikh Reference Library at Amritsar (No. 5026) was dated 1753 Bk/AD 1696 by B&#257lgovind Fateh Chand, one of the scribes serving Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. The manuscript (No. 2420), entitled <i>Ratan D&#257m (Amar Ko&#347a Bh&#257kh&#257</i>), is preserved in the Central Public Library at Pa&#7789i&#257l&#257.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>Bachitra N&#257&#7789ak</i><BR>
<li class="C1"> Sain&#257pati, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Sobh&#257</i>, ed. Ganda Singh. Patiala, 1967<BR>
<li class="C1"> Padam, Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh J&#299 de Darb&#257r&#299 Ratan</i>. Patiala,1976<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR>
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