Panth Parkash 1

What this book is about

The first volume (Purbaradh) of Giani Gian Singh's Sri Gur Panth Prakash, the standard eighteenth-century history of the Sikh Panth, printed by Bhai Vir Singh Sahit Sadan in Delhi and dedicated to Mata Sahib Devan of the Khalsa path. The opening mangala is glossed word by word, and the book then works through Guru Nanak's early life, his preaching, and travels in the Punjab, his meeting with Bhai Mardana and Baba Budha, the founding of the seats of authority at Chak Nawanshahr, Takht Sri Hazur Sahib and Sach Khand, and Guru Angad's succession. The contents pages promise accounts of the later gurus, the Mughal conflicts, Guru Hargobind, Guru Gobind Singh, the sack of Anandpur, and the final tour of the tenth Guru.