According to eyewitness Sikh chronicles, known as Bhatt Vahis, Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak. [25] Pashaura Singh (2000). The Guru Granth Sahib: Canon, Meaning and Authority. Oxford University Press. p.104. ISBN 978-0-19-564894-2. a b c d Pashaura Singh; Louis E. Fenech (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Oxford University Press. pp.127–129. ISBN 978-0-19-969930-8.

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Gurbilas Patashahi 6 written 1718 [26] attributed to Bhai Mani Singh says Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak. [20] The Guru Granth Sahib was composed predominantly by six Sikh gurus: Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan and Guru Tegh Bahadur. It also contains the traditions and teachings of fourteen Hindu Bhakti movement sants (saints), such as Ramananda, Kabir and Namdev among others, and one Muslim Sufi saint: Sheikh Farid. [10] [11] Stefan Pertz (2013), The Guru in Me - Critical Perspectives on Management, GRIN Verlag, ISBN 978-3638749251, p. 2–3.a b Sikh art and literature. Kerry, Brown. London: Routledge. 1999. p.198. ISBN 0-415-20288-4. OCLC 39765536. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) Nanaki, Nanak's only sister, was five years older than him. In 1475, she married and moved to Sultanpur. [ citation needed] Jai Ram, Nanaki's husband, was employed at a modikhana (a storehouse for revenues collected in non-cash form), in the service of the Delhi Sultanate's Lahore governor Daulat Khan, at which Ram would help Nanak get a job. [42] Nanak moved to Sultanpur, and started working at the modikhana around the age of 16. [ citation needed] Nanak Chandrodaya Sanskrit Janamsakhi from 1797 and Janam Sakhi Baba Nanak by Sant Das Chibber from the 18th century both mention Guru Nanak being born on the full moon of katak. [20] Ernest Trumpp – a German philologist, published the first philological study and a major but incomplete English translation of the Guru Granth Sahib in 1877, after an eight-year study of the text and field interviews with Sikh intelligentsia of his time. [59] [60] Trumpp included his criticism of the Sikh scripture in the preface and introductory sections, and stated "Sikhism is a waning religion, that will soon belong to history". Many in the Sikh community regarded these introductory remarks to his translation as extremely offensive. [61] [62] According to the Indologist Mark Juergensmeyer, setting aside Ernest Trumpp's nasty remarks, he was a German linguist and his years of scholarship, translations, as well as field notes and discussions with Sikhs at the Golden Temple remain valuable reference works for contemporary scholars. [63] While Akshaya Kumar holds Trumpp's translation to be "literal and mechanical" emphasizing preciseness and fastidiously retaining the words as well as the syntax of the original verses, avoiding any creative and inventive restatement to empathize with a believer, [64] Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair noted the clear influence from the Brahmanical leanings of his Nirmala collaborators, [65] among the British-supported Sikh class which had been long enjoying British patronage as they helped to keep "hostile" elements under control, [66] who for example induced Trumpp to omit the numeral "one" in the phrase Ik Oankar in his translation, [65] in an attempt to bring the scripture closer to the Brahmanical-influenced interpretation of the sects that differed with the interpretation of the orthodox Khalsa. Trumpp's translation was seen to be a challenge to the administration's already-established view that the Sikhs were a distinct community, [65] prompting the Khalsa to commission its own translation. Trumpp, as well as other translators, were commissioned by colonial administrators. [64] Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh (2009). Religion and the Specter of the West – Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Translation. Columbia University Press. pp.372–73. ISBN 978-0-231-14724-8.

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Cole, William Owen; Sambhi, Piara Singh (1995) [First published 1978]. The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-189872313-4. Trumpp, Ernest (2004) [1877]. The Ādi Granth or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs. India: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. p.lxxxi. ISBN 978-81-215-0244-3.

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