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== [[Zirkoff, Boris|Boris de Zirkoff]] == | == [[Zirkoff, Boris|Boris de Zirkoff]] == | ||
'''''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. | '''''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. | ||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 1, p. 443 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1) | |||
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