The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 132

As the pen (of God) has flown (= written) on the forehead, such (a lot) the creatures will obtain.

Nanak says: in the first watch man has fallen into the womb.^

(2) In the second watch of the night, 0 friend merchant, meditation has been forgotten.

From hand to hand he is fondly passed,* 0 friend merchant, as Kan (= Krishna) in the house of Jasuda.'

The child is fondly passed (danced) from hand to hand, the mother says:

My son! know, 0 my thoughtless foolish heart, at the end nothing will be thine.

Thou doest not know him, by whom creation was made; form (= conceive) in thy mind divine knowledge!

Nanak says: in the second watch meditation is forgotten by man.

(3). In the third watch of the night, 0 friend merchant, his mind is intent on wealth and youth.

He does not remember the name of Hari, 0 friend merchant, by which the bound one is released.

Man does not remember the name of Hari, he is confused and (engaged) with the Maya.

He is enamoured of property, drunk by youth, uselessly his human birth is lost.

He has not carried on trafiic with religion, he has done no (good) works, 0 fi'iend!

Kanak says: in the third watch the thought of man (is directed) towards wealth and youth.

(4). In the fourth watch of the night, 0 friend merchant, the reaper has come (and reaped) the field.

When he is seized and marched off by Yama, no one has undergone a change of mind.'

No one has undergone a change of mind, when he is seized and marched off by Tama.

A false weeping is made round about him, in a moment he has become a stranger.

That thing he has obtained, on which he had bestowed his affection.

Nanak says: in the fourth watch the field of man is reaped by the reaper.

' Tlie follovving pieces bear the superscription " pahare," watches, for reasons apparent from the con- tents. Tliese verses are addressed to a vanjara mitr, whiih the Sikhs take for a proper name, but it is perhaps

more simple to take it for an appellative.

" JIddTf'T, Loc. of Jld^lJT = IJHim*!, uterus.

■' The Hindus fancy that the fcetus in the womb is meditating on Brahm.

^ tI^-^I. tlie wife of Xanda, in whose house Krislina was brought up.

' 35 = 37 > ^ changed state, change of mind; man dies as he lived.

(1). In the first watch of the night, 0 friend merchant, the child is of a thoughtless mind.

It drinks milk, it is caused to play, 0 friend merchant, mother and father are in love with their son.

Mother and father have great love to their son, all are under the infatuation of the Maya.

By copulation' (of the parents) he came (into the world), he has earned his deeds, he does the work, which he has to do.