The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 75

* ♦llfddl'-rT^i in whose hand is a bow, an epithet of Vishnu. ' ^TZ, the wicked are STT*?. ^tj, W3, ^, USTT?-

° "Sn?? TlOTvrS. the twenty-seven fold, i.e. body. The body is said to consist of twenty-five parts, of »m3*fT and of »T^ = twenty-seven.

' tf^ s.m. station = jjf^JT^, i.e. giT^Tfl^. ^^, 'ff'^rfH' waking, dream and deep sleep; a fourth (H^^^) is also counted, tlie absorption of the soul in Bralima.

* The ten are said to be the four Vedas and the six Shastras; the eigliteen are the eigliteen Puranas.

° The woi-ds are so elliptic, that they are hardly intelligible. The sense is: thus paradise is obtained by the wise and hell by the fool.

Likely thou -wilt think, that it {i.e. paradise) is obtained by (mere) words.

By the conceit of wealth, by the beauty of the body, in this wise the (human) birth is lost.

(2). Vice is on the body (like) mud, this mind is a frog, who does not get any information respecting the lotus.

The black bee is the teacher, who continually talks; how shall it {i.e. the mind) understand, when he (the black bee) does not make it understand?

(3). Speaking and hearing is (like) the voice of the wind {i.e. useless), this mind is attached to the Maya.

The (merciful) glance of the Lord is heart-pleasing to them, by whom he is considered as One and meditated upon.

(4). (By whom) the thirty (days of fasting) and the five (prayers daily) have been kept, he, having made the name his companion, goes off, having frustrated the design of Satan.

Nanak says: it must be departed, what for is property and wealth amassed?

(I). He is the Lord, by whom the world is made budding, (by whom) the world is made green. By whom the water and earth have been fixed; blessed is the creator.

Pause. Thou must die, 0 MuUa! thou must die! remain in the fear of the creator I ' (2). Then thou art a iluUa, then thou art a Kazi, if thou knowest the name of God. None, though he be very learned, will remain, it is gone onwards.-

(3). He is a Kazi, by whom his own self is abandoned and the one name is made his support. He is and will be, he will not be destroyed, true is the creator. (4). Five times he prays, he reads the book of the Qoran. Nanak says: when the grave calls, drinking and eating is stopped.

(1). There is one dog (and) two bitches with (me). Bewildered they always bark early in the morning. Falsehood is a knife, stolen (goods) carrion. I remain in the form of a bowman,-' 0 creator!

Pause. I have no road of honour,* nor do I practise good works. I am ugly and remain in an unclean form.

37 at the beginning of a sentence and in connexion with an imperative, is an exhortatory particle, like the Sanskrit 'iJlft. »

Vrfff 3d<M. to carry the foot = to go on, to quicken one's step.

MIAo^, armed with a bow; a caste of low people, who are armed with a bow and live by hunting. VT3?T Vfi > road of honour, i.e. I do not walk honourably.

(2). "With my mouth I utter calumny clay and night.

I look at another's wife and am of low occupation.'

Lust and wi'ath dwell in my body, I am a Candal.

0 creator! I remain in the form of a bowman.

(3). Ensnared (caught) is my understanding by an elegant dress.

I remain in the form of a bowman, 0 creator!

(4). I am ungrateful, I live on the wages of iniquity.

I remain in the form of a bowman, 0 creator!

1. There is one (and the same) understanding in as many creatures as there are.