Guru Nanak
Miharban Janamsakhi
Later compilation
Miharban Janamsakhi
ਮਿਹਰਬਾਨ ਵਾਲੀ ਜਨਮਸਾਖੀ
A janamsakhi composed in the circle of Sodhi Miharban, grandson of Guru Ram Das and member of a dissident branch. It accompanies the stories with long exegeses of Nanak's hymns and is valuable as early testimony of how his work was read.
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Authorship note
Not Nanak's work: a compilation from the first half of the seventeenth century.
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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
- Bhai Bala Janamsakhi · 1650
- 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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