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Definition of Granth sahib

1. Noun. The principal sacred text of Sikhism contains hymns and poetry as well as the teachings of the first five gurus.

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Literary usage of Granth sahib

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The principal work and the sacred book of the Sikhs is the Adi Granth or Granth Sahib (see below), a work in an obscure dialect of the Panjabi called ..."

2. India and Its Faiths: A Traveler's Record by James Bissett Pratt (1915)
"For his own part, at any rate, he knew that he worshiped the granth sahib and nothing else. I asked him if he worshiped God, and he said, "Yes. ..."

3. Indian Theism from the Vedic to the Muhammadan Period by Nicol Macnicol (1915)
"Along with that goes—like the reverence for Sabda in Kabir—what developed presently into worship of the granth sahib, the book that preserved the wisdom of ..."

4. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1901)
"granth sahib' was printed in large letters by the side of one of the ordinary low doorways. I was about to inquire as to this Mr. Grant, ..."

5. Anglo-Indian Studies by Siddha Mohana Mitra (1913)
"... included all persons who belonged to the Sikh faith, and took the tenets of their religious belief from the writings known as the Sri Guru granth sahib. ..."

6. Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenáná; Or, Six Years in India by Helen Douglas Mackenzie (1853)
"They always call their sacred book " The granth sahib." Mr. Scott told me he had had many suits to settle regarding land which has been left for the support ..."

7. Other Sheep: A Missionary Companion to "Twice-born Men" by Harold Begbie (1912)
"On the following morning a space was cleared for me in one of the large rooms where the granth sahib, or sacred book of the Sikhs, was usually read. ..."

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