Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies
Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies
Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies
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with meticulous care. And yet when the Shromni Gurdwara<br />
Parbhandhak Committee sent its team to compare the latest<br />
corrected copy with the <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong>, T 33 errors or variations<br />
were discovered in the printed <strong>Bir</strong>. It is thus amazing that<br />
<strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong> has so far corrected incongruities. Therefore, the<br />
suggestion <strong>of</strong> <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong> being a draft is not only groundless<br />
but also fanciful.<br />
We have detailed above the various pieces and types<br />
<strong>of</strong> internal evidence, most <strong>of</strong> which are individually and<br />
incontrovertibly conclusive, in proving that the <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong><br />
is the original Adi-Granth compiled by the fifth Guru in 1604<br />
A. D. The other pieces <strong>of</strong> evidence, we have recorded are<br />
cumulatively, or coupled with the other evidence, equally<br />
conclusive in proving the authenticity <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong> as<br />
the original production <strong>of</strong> the Fifth Guru. No one who makes<br />
a serious and close page to page study. detailed scrutiny and<br />
examination <strong>of</strong> the materials available on the subject can fail<br />
to come to a clear conclusion about the undoubted authenticity<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong>.<br />
III<br />
Let us now proceed to examine the views <strong>of</strong> three<br />
persons, namely. Messers G. B. Singh, Mcleod and Pritam Singh<br />
who have expressed doubts about the authenticity <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Kartatarpuri <strong>Bir</strong>. In 1944, G. B. Singh brought out his book<br />
“Pracheen <strong>Bir</strong>an” wherein he criticised the authenticity <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Adi.Granth and the <strong>Kartarpuri</strong> <strong>Bir</strong>. The first part <strong>of</strong> his attack<br />
was very sinister; for he obliquely suggested that in the Adi-<br />
Granth certain writings which were not <strong>of</strong> the Gurus had been<br />
included and on the other hand certain Bani which was really<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Gurus had been omitted from it. This surmise <strong>of</strong> G. B.<br />
Singh was based chiefly on the Mohan Pothies which he had not<br />
even seen. The second part <strong>of</strong> his