Guru Nanak
Bhai Bala Janamsakhi
Later compilation
Bhai Bala Janamsakhi
ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ ਵਾਲੀ ਜਨਮਸਾਖੀ
The most widespread janamsakhi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, supposedly narrated by Bala, Nanak's travelling companion. It supplies the Kattak birth date and many miracles. McLeod showed that Bala is probably a figure created by the Handali sect.
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Authorship note
Not Nanak's work: a seventeenth-century compilation with later interpolations.
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Other works by Guru Nanak
- Japji (Japu)
- Asa di Var (Ballad in raga Asa)
- Sidh Gosht (Dialogue with the Siddhas)
- Hymns and stanzas in the Guru Granth Sahib (the complete corpus) · 1604
- Mul Mantar
- Onkar (Ramkali Dakhni)
- Var in raga Majh
- Var in raga Malar
- Barah Maha (The twelve months), raga Tukhari
- Babarvani (The Babur hymns) · 1520
- Arti ("Gagan mai thal")
- Kirtan Sohila (Nanak's contributions)
- So Dar and Rahras (Nanak's contributions)
- Patti (The alphabet), raga Asa
- Alahanian (Dirges), raga Vadhans
- Pahare (The watches), Sri Rag
- Thiti (The lunar days), raga Bilaval
- Kuchaji and Suchaji, raga Suhi
- Saloks in sahaskriti
- Pran Sangli
- Puratan Janamsakhi (and the B40 manuscript) · 1600
- Miharban Janamsakhi · 1640
- Bhai Gurdas's first var · 1610
- Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion (W. H. McLeod) · 1968
- The Sikh Religion (Max Arthur Macauliffe) · 1909
- Life and teachings of Guru Nanak (Premka Kaur Khalsa) · 2004
Sources
- McLeod, W. H. Early Sikh Tradition: A Study of the Janam-sākhīs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
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