
Two of his eldest sons from the first wife died during his lifetime. Guru Hargobind had three wives: Damodari, Nanaki and Mahadevi. He thus founded the military tradition in the Sikh faith. The number fifty-two was special in his life, and his retinue consisted of fifty-two armed men. He followed his martyred father's advice and always kept himself surrounded by armed Sikhs for protection. He put on two swords: one indicated his spiritual authority ( pīrī) and the other, his temporal authority ( mīrī). Shortly afterwards, Guru Arjan was arrested, tortured and killed by order of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, Guru Hargobind's succession ceremony took place on 24 June 1606. On Guru Arjan, five days before his own death, selected his son Hargobind as his successor and instructed his son to start a military tradition to protect the Sikh people and always keep himself surrounded by armed Sikhs for protection. He studied religious texts with Bhai Gurdas and trained in swordsmanship and archery with Baba Budda (not to be confused with the Gautama Buddha). According to hagiographies written by the orthodox Sikh tradition he survived a poisoning attempt by his uncle Prithi Chand, as well as another attempt on his life, when a cobra was thrown at him. Use "Change Text Colours" from left menu.Ħ) User can select Gurbani languages from Gurmukhi (Punjabi) Hindi and English.ħ) User can share this app with friends and family.ĩ) User can use Go option to quickly go to any Ang (page).Guru Hargobind was born in Gurū kī Waḍālī, in a Sodhi Khatri Family in a village 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Amritsar, the only son of Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru. increase or decrease) within app.ĥ) Option to change the text colours of Gurbani lines within app.
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The vision in the Guru Granth Sahib is of a society based on divine justice without oppression of any kind.ġ) This app is developed using latest android meterial design.Ģ) User can read Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji by Ang (page) number.ģ) Gurmukhi (Punjabi) and English translation (Vyakhya) on every Ang (page).Ĥ) Option to change the text size (i.e. It also contains the traditions and teachings of Indian sants (saints), such as Guru Gobind Singh added 1 sloakh in mahala. Guru Granth Sahib was composed by seven Sikh Gurus: Copies in these languages often have the generic title of Sant Bhasha.

The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script, in various languages, including Lahnda (Western Punjabi), Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Sanskrit, Sindhi, and Persian. The hymns in the scripture are arranged primarily by the ragas in which they are read. The bulk of the scripture is divided into thirty-one ragas, with each Granth raga subdivided according to length and author.

The text consists of 1430 angs (pages) and 6,000 shabads (line compositions), which are poetically rendered and set to a rhythmic ancient north Indian classical form of music. This second rendition came to be known as Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, added one salok, dohra mahala 9 ang, 1429 and all 115 hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Adi Granth, the first rendition, was compiled by the fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan. Guru Granth Sahib is the religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign, and eternal living Guru following the lineage of the ten human Gurus of the Sikh religion.
