Indian Classical Music And Sikh Kirtan by Gobind Singh Mansukhani (M.A., LL.B, Ph.D.) © 1982 NOTES AND REFERENCES |
| NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. G.S. Mansukhani, Life of Guru Nanak, p. 25. 2. Adi Granth, p.729. 3. Ibid., p. 1171. 4. Sikh Sacred Music, p. 38. 5. Adi Granth, p. 879. 6. Bhai Gurdas, Var I, 38. 7. Ibid., I, 27. 8. Ibid., 24, 4. 9. Adi Granth, p. 1110 10. Ibid., p.1113. 11. Ibid., p. 867. 12. Ardaman Singh Bagrain, Guru Nanak’s Solution of National Unity and integration, p. 30. In this connection, Aurobindio Ghose wrote: “Where else could the songs of Tukharam, a Kabir and Sikh Gurus and their profound spiritual thinking have so found so speedy an echo and formed a popular religious literature? This strong permeation or close nearness of the spiritual turn, this readiness of the mind of a whole nation to turn to the highest realities is the sign and fruit of an age-long, a real and a still living and supremely religious culture.” (The Foundations of Indian Culture, p, 147) 13. Adi Granth, p. 967. 14. Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, II, p. 15. 15. Adi Grant, p. 791. 16. Ibid., p. 791. 17. Ibid., p. 1280. 18. Ibid., p.1280. 19. Ibid., p. 917. 20. Ibid., p. 968. 21. Ibid., p. 908. 22. Ibid., p. 114. 23. Ibid., p. 1420. 24. Ibid., p. 923. 25. Bhai Gurdas, Var, I1, 18. 26. Adi Granth, p. 368. 27. Ibid., p. 669. 28. Ibid., p. 1423. 29. Ibid., p. 448. 30. Puran Singh wrote: “The music of disciple poetry kindles the light of love in empty shrines; its cadence is that of the temple bells that waken the worshipers at dawn.” (The Spirit of Oriental Poetry, p. 86). 31. Adi Granth, p. 773. 32. Ibid., p. 669. 33. Ibid., p. 442. 34. Ibid., p. 507. 35. Ibid., p. 773. 36. Ibid., p. 642. 37. Ibid., p. 1356. 38. Bhai Gurdas, Var, 11, 18. 39. Singh Sabha Patrika: (Feb. 1978) p. 51. 40. Adi Granth, p. 841.’ 41. Ibid., p. 404. 42. Ibid., p. 297. 43. Ibid., p. 387. 44. Ibid., p. 821 45. Ibid., p. 962. 46. See Tara Singh: Guru Teg Bahadur, Rag Ratnavali, p. 185-241. 47. D. P. Ashta, The Poetry of Dasam Granth, p. 279. 48. Adi Granth, p. 1168. 49. UNESCO, The Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, p. 272. |