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Summary of Question:	Jap Ji And Jaap Sahib
Category:	Gurbani
Date Posted:	Wednesday, 6/20/2007 11:57 AM MDT

Please can you tell me what the difference is between

Jap Ji Sahib and Jaap Sahib as they are nearly identical in name I am confused with the names that are used.
Please also clarify what essentially they are for and which Guru composed them.
Jap Ji Sahib
Jaap Sahib

Thanking you.

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Sat nam. Japji Sahib is the first thing you find in Siri Guru Granth Sahib, composed by first Guru Nanak. It opens with Mul Mantra and continues through 39 pauris and one slok.
Jaap Sahib is composed by 10th Guru Gobind Singh when he was still a teenager. It is not in Guru Granth Sahib. Japji Sahib is the Song of the Soul, Jaap Sahib means Royal Recitation.
Guru ang sang.
PS: You could find this out by exploring banis section on Sikhnet.
-DK