The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 561

(Thou hast) a Dhoti, front-mark and rosary, (but) eatest the com of the barbarians.

Puja within thou readest the book (Qur'an), the restraint (or law) of the Turks, 0 brother!

Slok II.; mahald I. Eating men they make prayer.

Those, who let go the knife, wear a (sacred) thread on (their) neck. In their house the Brahmans blow the sound. To them also this very thing is pleasant. False is (their) stock, false (their) traffic. By speaking falsehood they get (their) livelihood. The dwelling of shame and piety is far away (from them). Xanak (says): falsehood is (everywhere) brimful.

On (their) forehead is a mark, (round) the waist the tucked-in end of the Dhoti. In (their) hand is a knife, the world is a butcher. Putting on blue clothes (like the ilusalmans) they become approved of.

These words Nanak is said to have spoken to a Hindu, who was the receiver of customs at tlie bridge of Sultanpur.

Taking the food of the barbarians they worship the Puranas.

A goat killed not in the language (of the Hindus) is eaten (by them).'

They make a cauka and draw their lines round it.

Then the false ones come and sit upon it.

" Lest it be defiled, lest it be defiled this our food! "

(Being of) a loose body they clear (it) away.

(Being of) an impure heart they take a mouthful of water.

Nanak says: if the True one be meditated upon:

Purity is effected, then the True one is obtained.

Faurl. He sees every one within (his) mind and makes (him) go under (his) sight. He himself gives greatness, he himself causes (all) works to be done. On the immensely large earth he is applying (every one) to his (particular) work. If he makes a displeased glance, he turns a Sultan into a grass-cutter, (Who), when begging at the door, does not get alms.

XVII. S!ok I.; maJiald I. When a thief robs a house, having robbed the liouse he gives (offerings out of the plunder) to his ancestors.

In the other world the thing is known, that he makes (thereby) his ancestors thieves. Let the hands of the broker {i.e. the Brahman) be cut off, this justice '-^ (one) should do. Nanak (says): in the other world that is obtained, what one acquires, works and gives (here).

As a woman gets her period (menses) from time to time: (So) the impure live with an impure face and are continually wretched. Those are not called pure, who sit down after having washed (their) body. Pure are those, 0 Nanak, in whose heart that One dwells.

Panri. Horses are saddled swift like the wind, a Harem of all colours is arranged. Having built houses, mansions, upper-storied houses, they sit in them and make displays. They do things pleasing to their mind, (but) Hari they do not comprehend (and are therefore) lost. They give order and eat, beholding their houses death is forgotten (by them). Decay has come on, they are defeated in youth.

If impurity be minded, impurity takes place in all (things).

As many as are the grains of corn, no one is without a living being.

' WBTftfJKT. 's an idiom, that is not the bhakha (of the Hindus), i.e. slaughtering a g'oat in the Mnsalman way, by saying: hismillah (.till **.*.>). " J^TST =,A~2i»<, justice.

First (In) the water are living creatures, by which every (thing) becomes green.

How should impurity be kept off, impurity falls into the food!

Kauak (says): in this wise impurity does not go off, divine knowledge (alone) washes it away.

The impurity of the mind is covetousness, the impurity of the tongue is falsehood. The impurity of the eyes is the looking at another's wife, at another's property (and) appearance. Impurity of the ears (it is), (if one) apply to his ear the tale-bearing, (which one) makes. The souls of men being bound (by these impurities) go to the city of Yama.

Every impurity is an error, (that) clings to duality.

Birth and death is the order (of God), by (his) decree (man) comes and goes. Eating and drinking is pure, the daily food is prepared and given by him.

Xanak (says): no impurity (sticks) to those disciples, by whom (the truth or the True one) is comprehended.