Sri Dasam Granth

The Sri Dasam Granth is a sacred text in the Sikh religion. It is a collection of the written and oral compositions of the Tenth Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708), believed to have been scribed by scholar and martyr Bhai Mani Singh (1670-1737).

Passages within the Sri Dasam Granth are commonly recited by Sikhs and also form part of the Khalsa initiation ceremony. The Jaap Sahib, Tvye Prasad Sawaiye (Amrit Savaiye), and Benti Chaupai, are all compositions from the Sri Dasam Granth, and form part of nitnem, the daily prayers of the Sikhs.

Dasama Pādśāh-kā granth

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The University of Manchester Library

Some Sikhs regard the Sri Dasam Granth as an extension of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, and they use the term Sri Dasam Granth Sahib Ji.

Across Gurdwaras in the UK, Sri Dasam Granths are not as common as Sri Guru Granth Sahibs, and those that are handwritten are even rarer.

Punjabi MS 6

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Bookplate of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana

We do not know much about the history of this manuscript, besides the fact that it formed part of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana owned by the Earls of Crawford, a collection acquired for the John Rylands Library in 1901.

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Sanskrit MS 10

The manuscript was initially catalogued as a Sanskrit text, but it is written in numerous languages such as Braj Bhasha (Old western Hindi), Avadhi, Punjabi, Hindi, and Persian. While many of these languages derive from Sanskrit, this suggests that whoever catalogued the manuscript was uninformed about its contents, language and significance prior to community consultation.

The manuscript has now been reclassified as Punjabi MS 6.

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