The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 609

" li^cj I jd cannot here signify the other world (Sansk. ^^«ai;), but '^Jtrl'^ is added pleonastically, as '" '^t^TS^tfi'i'^l emancipation.

^ 3\r3 's to be divided into S (indeed = ■37) and ITS = '^frf, very, exceedingly.

^ "S^ s-f. dust (Sindhi -^^j Hindi X;^, s.f. from the Sausk. i;^5I^).

* ^f^^ is a regidar passive formation, as still used in Sindhi (see my Sindhi Grammar, p. 258 sijr/.).

' IJfg' can also signify: account, which suits here the context very well.

" fWUST. to ort'er up (as presents), from the Sansk. ^*iM(i|.

" In ■Q^fu (Sansk. 'g(«jm«T) and fg^flf (Sansk. f^^^M) the long a has been shortened, which the poets do ad libitum.

SAVAIE REFERIUXG TO lEAH. III., XII.— XV. 703

By thee the One is read, the One is put in thy mind, the One is recognized. In (thy) eye, word and mouth is the One, the One is known in hoth places.' In (thy) dream is the One, in (thy) perception- is the One, in the One (thou art) absorbed. (In) the thirty and the five the One is evinced, (in) the thirty-five he is not consumed.^ The One, who (is at the same time) Lakhs, is not perceptible by a mark, verifying him as the One he is described (by thee).

0 Guru Amardas, says Jalap, thou desirest the One, the One is minded by thee.

IV. XIII. Which view Jaidev took, which view was contained in Xama.

"Which view (was) in the mind of Trilocan and acknowledged by the Bhagat Kabir.

(Which was) the practice of Eukamangad,* (according to that) mutter continually Eam, 0 brother!

Ammarik,^ Prahlad obtained emancipation (in) the asylum of Govind.

Thou hast given up greediness, wrath (and) worldly desires, thy view is known by Jalh " to be right.

Guru Amardas, thou art (God's) own Bhagat, having seen (thy) sight I obtain final emancipation.

(If) Guru Amardas be touched, the sins ' of the earth " are destroyed. (If) Guru Amardas be touched, the perfect Jogis and ascetics rejoice (in it).

(If) Guru Amardas be touched, profound meditation is obtained, the falling ' (into the womb) ceases. (If) Guru Amardas be touched, fearlessness is obtained, going is stopped.

When a man obtains (his) excellent mantra (of initiation), then he remains united '" with the One without duaKty."

0 Jalap, 80 many excellent things are obtained by seeing Guru Amardas.

"The true name is the creator," this was firmly established by Nanak.

Then Angad Lahana becoming manifest remained in meditation on his (Nanak's) feet.

' 7vl difyA. Formative Plur., in both places = hi both worlds.

' Vdjftf, the Locative Sing, of "LI J;^tf, Sansk. TTW^ «• perception of the senses, clear cognizance (in contradistinction to JIV^).

' This verse is a puzzle; it is very difficult to say, what is intended by these numbers.

* ^cT^idl-i is said to have been a Bhagat (according to the tradition of the Sikh Granthis), though nothing is known about him. I never found him mentioned elsewhere in the Graiith.

* tT?5 Jalli is only a shortened pronunciation of tI IWU. as his verses are counted in a consecutive number.

* Vrrfir. */• the eartli, from nN^fV,.'• being changed to u (on account of the labial), ^ to h and '^ to m, according to the usual laws.

' V© '"• falling ("cil. into the womb, iu contradistinction to 3^©, the going away, i.e. dying).

704 SAVAIE REFERRING TO JIAH. III., XVI.— XIX.