The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 63

(If) in your own house (his) residence (is), you will easily obtain comfort, there will not be again a turn of transmigration.

(4). 0 heart-knowing Supreme Being, 0 disposer of the destiny! make full the heart's faith!

Thy slave Nanak asks this comfort: make me the dust of the saints!

{Caupadds.)- I. (1). A mansion of pearls may then be raised, with gems indeed it may be studded. With musk, kungu,' aloe-wood and sandal- wood having plastered it he {i.e. the builder) may be delighted.''

Having seen (it) likely^ it {i e. the name) is forgotten, thy name does not come into (his) mind.

I have asked my own Guru and seen, that there is no other place (but Hari).

(2). The ground may indeed be studded with diamonds and rubies, on the bedstead rubies may be set.

An enchanting woman, with jewels on her face, may glitter and make shows in merriment.

Having seen (her) likely it is forgotten, thy name does not come into (his) mind.

(3). I may become a Siddh, I may employ miraculous power, I may say to prosperity: Come!

I may sit down concealed (or) manifest, thy people may pay reverence (to me).

Having seen (this) likely thy name does not come into (my) mind, it is forgotten.

(4). I may become a Sultan, and having assembled an army I may put my foot on the throne.

I may obtain command and sit down; 0 Nanak I all is wind!

Having seen (this) likely thy name does not come into (my) mind, it is forgotten.

■UTJ signifies, according to the unanimous testimony of the Sikhs, a musical note or key, according to which these verses are to be played and sung. I3nt the exact knowledge of it seems to be lost; for in spite of many inquiries, I liave never been able to get an accurate description of it.

" This word BwTJ^T is missing in some MSS.; the verses are in reality Tripadas. The Sikhs call the Dupadas, Tripadas and Caupadas generally sahd.

g^, s.m. IS a very fine composition, of a red colour, made of amla (Sansk. '^?T^^). which women apply to their foreheads.

No person is mentioned; it may therefore Ite applied to the first or third person singular. ° V[3 is not to be confounded witli i^fg: (lest); V^ is the Sansk. ^ JTf!*?; according to my opinion; we have therefore translated it with likely.

(1). (If my) life (be) crore?, ci'ores, if wind-drinking (bo my) nourituro.-

If (dwelling) in a cave I do not see neither moon nor sun, (if) I have no place for dreaming (and) sleeping.

Yet thy value is not found out (by me), how great shall I call thy name?

1. Pause. True is the Formless in his own place.

Having heard, heard the word (one) tells it; if it pleases (to any), lie longs (for it).^ (2). (If) I be killed and cut (in pieces) repeatedly, (if) I be ground on the grinding stone.* (If) I be burned with fire, (if) I be reduced to ashes (mixed with ashes). Yet thy value is not found out (by me), how great shall I call thy name? (3). (If) having become a bird I roam about and go to a hundred heavens. (If) I do not come into the sight of any one, nor do drink aud eat anything. Yet thy value is not found out (by me), how great shall I call thy name?

(4). 0 Nanak! if having read, read a paper consisting of a hundred thousand maunds consideration (an idea of him) ' be made.

(If) the ink do not run short, (if) the wind move the pen.

Yet thy value is not found out; how great shall I call thy name?

Sirl Riig; mahald I. III. (1). According to destiny one speaks," according to destiny one eats. According to destiny a way is made, according to destiny one hears and sees. According to destiny the breath is taken; what shall I go to ask a learned man?

1. Pause. 0 father, the creation of Maya is deception.

By the blind one the name is forgotten; he has neither this nor that (world). (2). What lives, dies; being born' it is here (in this world) eaten up by death. Where having sat down one is informed, there none has gone with.* As many weepers as there are, they all bind together a bundle of rice-straw.°