The Goindval Pothis: The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon (Harvard Oriental Series)
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Author(s)
Gurinder S. Mann
ISBN / ASIN
0674356187
ISBN-13
9780674356184
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Description
This volume explores the earliest available version of the Sikh canon. The book contains the first critical description and partial edition of the Goindval Pothis, a set of proto-scriptural manuscripts prepared in the 1570s. The manuscripts also contain a number of hymns by non-Sikh saints, some of them not found elsewhere.
Through a meticulous analysis of the contents of these rare manuscripts, G. M. Singh establishes their place and importance in the history of Sikh canon formation.
The book will be of great interest to scholars of comparative canon studies and of medieval Indian literature.
