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The Goindval Pothis: The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon (Harvard Oriental Series)
The Goindval Pothis The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon - Harvard Oriental Series Author:Gurinder Singh Mann This volume explores the earliest available version of the Sikh canon. The book contains the first critical description and partial edition of the Goindval Pothis, a set of proto-scriptural manuscripts prepared in the 1570s. The manuscripts also contain a number of hymns by non-Sikh saints, some of them not found elsewhere. Through a meticu... more »lous analysis of the contents of these rare manuscripts, G. M. Singh establishes their place and importance in the history of Sikh canon formation. This volume, number 51, in the Harvard Oriental series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies.« less