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16 contains many blank pages or spaces. Obviously, in a copy the very question of hundreds of pages being left blank does not arise, especially when it is copied by a single scribe. Because, in such a case the copyist has the entire material ready and in proper sequence, before him for being copied out. The Banno Bir which is supposed to be a copy of it, has only 467 folios. 29 It is therefore, ridiculous to suggest that the Kartarpuri Bir. with 974 folios is a copy of a Granth which had material that could be accomodated in about 467 folios. Generally, all the old handwritten Birs, including the Kartarpuri Bir, are in one hand. Therefore, this internal evidence in the Kartarpuri Bir is both incontrovertible and singly conclusive to show its originalty. 4. There are many Sabads or pieces of Bani which have been originally written twice, but later this duplication has either been erased by ‘Hartal’ (a chemical used in those days to obliterate the writing), or scored out with the observation in the margin that the Sabad was a duplication. Here too the question of Sabad or the same Bani being written at two places in a copied Bir could never arise. Such a thing could happen only in the original in which case either the scribe himself i.e. Bhai Gurdas, or the compiler i.e. the fifth Guru, has on revision found the error and got the same removed by scoring out the duplicate Sabad or Salok. This duplication has happened at pages 96/2, 186/2.483/1, 511/1, 550/2, 836/1, 943/2, etc. 30 One thing is even more conclusive about this volume being the original. At page 943/2 the Sabad has been scored out with the observation that the same stands copied at a subsequent page. In this case the error involved is not only a mistake of duplication but probably also of sequence. Therefore, the supervisor retained the Sabad where it had been copied later and fitted better in the scheme of the Adi-Granth and got it, cored out from the earlier place. Thus, these duplications too have a conclusive evidentiary value.
17 5. There is another set of corrected incongruities in the Kartarpuri Bir. At page 778/1 there is a marginal note that Salok No. 22 of Maihla 1 is correct and should be read on that page after Salok No. 21 (Nanak Amrit Ras Paid 1 “1”4"21). It is also indicated at this page 778/1 that Sholak “Maru Maihla 3 “Agam Agochar Ve-Parwaha” which is there on the page, should be read at page 788 and the Salok of Maihla-1 which at page 799/2 should be read there (at P. 778). Further, at page 788 there is a corresponding note that the 23rd Solak of Maihla 3 “Agam Agochar Ve-Parwaha” which is at page 778 should be read there (at page 788). Further still, at page 799/2 Maru Maihla 1, the Salok of which the correct place is at page 778 after Salok No. 21 of Maihla I, stands hastily recorded therein the hand of the original scribe. Now, these inadvertent incongruities are such as could not be rectified except by crossreferences, especially as Salok of Maihla 3 is long and could not be accommodated in the margin at page 788, nor could Maru Maihla 1 at page 799/2 be accomodated at page 778 and scored out at page 799/2. It is also important to note that in the Tatkara (contents of Saloks and Sabads) too the incongruity is perforce reflected but rectified. Because, at page 16/1 of the Tatkara (table of contents), the first lines of all the Saloks of Maihla I are written with their serial numbers 1 to 21. But against Salok No. 21 of Maihla-1, the first line of Salok ‘Qudrat Karnehar Apara’ of Maihla-1 is vertically recorded in the margin. Its number is noted as No. 22 and page as 799. Further, at this page 16/1 of the Tatkara, since in the text Salok of Maihla-3 “Agam Agochar Veparwaha” actually, but incongruously, starts at page 778 immediately after Salok No. 21 of Maihla-l, its reference number and the first line of the Sabad are recorded in the beginning of similar references of all the other Saloks of Maihla-3. But its number is correctly given as Salok No. 23 of Maihla-3. And at this very page 16/ 1 of the table of contents after the number
Page 1 and 2: CHAPTER 1 Introductory Sikhism is a
Page 3 and 4: and analyse all the available mater
Page 5 and 6: Parkash (1801 A.D.) the reply of Bh
Page 7 and 8: authentic scripture of the Sikhs co
Page 9 and 10: and kept it with him as a national
Page 11 and 12: 11 with the quotation of the first
Page 13 and 14: 13 Kartarpuri Bir, though he had no
Page 15: 15 There is no handwritten Bir the
Page 19 and 20: 19 mistakes which in their characte
Page 21 and 22: 21 been scored out or cancelled by
Page 23 and 24: 23 that the last words end where ve
Page 25 and 26: 25 been wrongly numbered as 333, 34
Page 27 and 28: 27 in the copy all the 1 to 60 Saba
Page 29 and 30: 29 It is important to understand th
Page 31 and 32: 31 contention was that the Kartarpu
Page 33 and 34: 33 pretension on the part of any on
Page 35 and 36: 35 Salok is not in the Mohan Pothie
Page 37 and 38: 37 Singh writes that the Kartarpuri
Page 39 and 40: 39 ever have been contemplated, tha
Page 41 and 42: 41 including these two verses was n
Page 43 and 44: 43 on very cogent grounds rejected
Page 45 and 46: 45 scriptural or doctrinal deviatio
Page 47 and 48: 47 Banno Granth had been tempered w
Page 49 and 50: 49 original is without any factual
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Page 53 and 54: 53 can be accomodated on about 465
Page 55 and 56: 55 5. This Bir was written in Sarna
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Page 59 and 60: 59 by the fifth Guru, and it is a C
Page 61 and 62: 61 changing it to 1659. Apart from
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67 Pritam Singh when faced with the
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69 need to be allowed and “the al
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71 On the main issue we have come t
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73 the Kartarpuri and the Banno Bir
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75 available since 1981. If it had
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77 of the three authors or critics
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58 ibid, pp. 119-121, 135 59 ibid,
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81 APPENDIX A Dr. W. H. Mcleod has
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83 Mira Bai’s hymn, as already st
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85 done only for the utilization of
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87 The work was in the tradition of
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89 about the nature of the mystic e
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91 Sikhism every other religious pr
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love. Because in the religious envi
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95 life there is aggression or inju
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97 causes, but also prescribed that
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99 ALDOUS (with emphasis) : Exactly
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101 Centuries earlier a Muslim sain
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103 Sikh Gurus God was Love. For th
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105 for all living, but in the purp
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107 rationality has been called a c
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109 constituted the unstable spirit
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111 The situation is similar in Afr
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113 17 ibid, pp. 26, 1091-92 18 ibi
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Essays on Authenticity of Kartarpur
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ESSAYS ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF KARTA
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PREFACE I am extremely grateful to
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its essentials. In laying down thei
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covered the scriptural and doctrina
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