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86 / <strong>Bhai</strong> <strong>Vir</strong> <strong>Singh</strong><br />

to <strong>Bhai</strong> <strong>Vir</strong> <strong>Singh</strong>. The latter made a careful study of it and<br />

published it in 1950. <strong>Bhai</strong> Santokh <strong>Singh</strong> apparently had this<br />

book in his possession and made use of itinthe writing of his<br />

SurajPrakash. LaterErnest Trumpp seems to have hadaccess<br />

to it and, following him, otherscholarssuchasFredericPincott<br />

and Syed Muhammad Latif made use ofit intheir books. Since<br />

in the original manuscript no distinction was made between<br />

the stories relating to Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Gobind<br />

<strong>Singh</strong>, some ofthe events described inthebooks ofthese later<br />

scholars became telescoped giving an erroneous view of the<br />

life of Guru Tegh Bahadur. <strong>Bhai</strong> <strong>Vir</strong> <strong>Singh</strong> set this right by<br />

establishing that the first 38 stories related to Guru Tegh<br />

Bahadur'slife andremaining80to Guru Gobind<strong>Singh</strong>'s. There<br />

were two stories which were obviously interpolations and<br />

<strong>Bhai</strong> <strong>Vir</strong> <strong>Singh</strong> published these inthe form of appendices.<br />

l[<br />

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