Goindval Pothis Hardcover by Gurinder S. Mann

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1997-01-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 233 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674356184
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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 and importance in the history of Sikh canon formation.

The book will be of great interest to scholars of comparative canon studies and of medieval Indian literature.

About the Author

Gurinder Singh Mann is Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies, Professor in the Global & International Studies Program and the Department of Religious Studies, and Director of the Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.