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Your absolutely correct, Dal Singh, Jodh Singh's translation is very clumsy: sometimes too literal, sometimes he takes too much liberty with the work. I know for a fact that qualified Sikh scholars are working on these issues right now, and I expect that you will see a fresher, more...

Dear Dal Singh, Let me see if I can be of some help. I'm a "big picture" person, so let me try and give you the BIG PICTURE of what Bhai Gurdas is trying to say in this stanza. In lines 1-5 he lists a bunch of practices, folk beliefs, and what we may call "superstitions" that the people...

Dear Brother, You've posted an excellent question. I would think Bhai Gurdas's Vars are referred to as "Adi Granth di kunji" (key to the Sikh scripture) because of the Vars' systematic attempt to explain Sikh tradition up to that point. I mean "systematic" because the vars often tackle one...