Quotes:Adi-Granth

Zirkoff, Boris

Adi-Granth. Sacred book of the Sikh Gurus. It is an important compilation of the utterances of the early Vaishnava saints or Bhagats. It is from them that Nanak, the founder of the sect, took his doctrines, and each of the 31 rags forming the body of the Granth, is followed by utterances of the saints, chiefly of Kabir, while the conclusion of the book contains more verses by the same authors, as well as by the celebrated Sufi, Shekh Farid of Pakpattan. The Adi-Granth was compiled about 1600 by Arjan, the fifth Guru; it is written in a special Sikh script, the Gurmukhi, and sets forth the Sikh creed in its original pietistic form, before it assumed its militant character. The texts are in various dialects and even partly in Persian. Vide Ernst Trumpp, The Adi-Granth or Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs, London, 1877.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 443

*Granth or Adi-Granth qt Granth-Sahib. The Holy Book or Scripture of the Sikhs, prepared by Guru Angad who embodied therein what he had learnt from Guru Nanak, adding devotional reflections of his own. See Sri Guru-Granth Sahib, English annotated translation by Gopal Singh. Delhi: Gur Das Kapur, 1960. Also an English transl. by Max Arthur Macauliffe: The Sikh Religion. London, 1909.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 510