The Goindval Pothis: The Earliest Extant Source of the Sikh Canon

by 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 meticulous analysis of the contents of these rare manuscripts, Gurinder Singh Mann establishes their place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674356187
• ISBN13: 9780674356184
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"