ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>VID&#298&#256 S&#256GAR GRANTH</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 NAME="keywords" CONTENT="VID*,SGAR,GRANTH"> <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">&#65279VID&#298&#256 S&#256GAR GRANTH, lit. the book (<i>granth</i>) of the ocean (<i>s&#257gar</i>) of wisdom (<i>vidi&#257</i>), is the title given to a legendary literary corpus created at Anandpur under the patronage of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. The volume, also known as <i>Vidi&#257sar Granth, Vidi&#257dhar Granth</i> and <i>Samund S&#257gar Granth</i>, was supposed to comprise the writings of the Gur&#363 as well as of the fifty-two poets and scholars he kept with him. As the tradition goes, it weighed nine maunds (approximately 320 kilograms) and got lost in the River Sars&#257 when Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh and the Sikhs were crossing it after evacuating Anandpur in 1705. The compositions which now form part of the <i>Dasam Granth</i> and the <i>Sarabloh Granth</i> may be portions of it which were salvaged or which had been earlier copied and preserved by the devotees. Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's poets at Anandpur S&#257hib---among them, Amrit R&#257i, A&#7751&#299 R&#257i, Si&#257m, Sain&#257pati, &#256l&#257m, &#7788ahik&#257&#7751, Day&#257 Si&#7749gh, Sukh&#257 Si&#7749gh and Dharam Si&#7749gh had been mostly assigned to the task of translating ancient Sanskrit texts into Braj, S&#257dh Bh&#257kh&#257 and Punjabi. These translations may have formed the bulk of the <i>Vid&#299&#257 S&#257gar Granth</i> references to which exist in old Sikh works such as <i>Mahim&#257 Prak&#257sh</i> (1776), Kesar Si&#7749gh Chhibbar's <i>Ba&#7749s&#257v&#257l&#299n&#257m&#257</i> (1796) and <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i> (1843).</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Padam, Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh j&#299 de Darb&#257r&#299 Ratan</i>. Patiala, 1976<BR> <li class="C1"> K&#257hn Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Gurushabad Ratan&#257kar Mah&#257n Kosh</i> [Reprint]. Patiala, 1981<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, M.A., <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Rattan Si&#7749gh Jagg&#299<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>