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Composition, Arrangement & Layout
ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="Vikram singh" data-source="post: 122520" data-attributes="member: 1078"><p>By Jagmit Singh <strong>Kabul, Afghanistan – </strong>The recent beheading of Sikhs by the Taliban in Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, has reminded the community of the hardships they face on both side of the Pakistan, Afghanistan border today. Two Sikhs men were reportedly beheaded by the Taliban in the FATA region of Pakistan, with their heads later being dropped at a gurdwara in Peshawar. Still, reports suggest that other Sikhs are under hostage. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> Last year the Pakistani Taliban militants had taken over shops and homes of Sikh families in the Orakzai Agency, while making demand for ransom. This year’s incidents are repeated attacks from last year, with threats to the Sikh community to convert, if they want to continuing living in Peshawar or even living at all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.chakranews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Afghan-Sikhs-constantly-face-threats.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Afghan Sikhs sit around the coffin of community elder Lachman Singh during a protest in Kabul September 17, 2007. Around 100 angry Afghan Sikhs carried a coffin to the United Nations headquarters in Kabul on Monday, accusing Muslims of stopping them cremating the dead man.</span></p><p></p><p>The Sikhs have been living in this region of Peshawar for a long time, historically. India is acclaimed as Sikh’s homeland while they were settling in Afghanistan over phases of its history, especially in the early nineteenth century when the Afghans lost Peshawar to the Sikhs.</p><p> Over the last few centuries, descendents of Sikhs traders have settled in Afghanistan starting in Sindh and Punjab through Kandahar, Jalalabad, as well as Kabul. The trade routes created through these settlements, went across the Hindu Kush to Samarkand, Merv and into Europe.</p><p> During the partition of India, a late migration occurred when many Sikhs living in Pakistan, near the Afghan border found it easier to find refuge in Afghanistan rather than taking a risk to travel across the country to go to India.</p><p> This new group of Sikh refugees made Afghanistan their home and they are known as the Afghan Sikhs who formed a more ethnically diverse Afghanistan. Just as they came in during different times in history, the Sikhs also left in different phases—out of the country. </p><p> Some left during the Soviet War, dying on their way because of the bombings of the war. The displacement caused by the war made many travel to India to find a temporary place to live but it turned out to not be temporary after all.</p><p> When they returned home shortly, their homes were taken over by warlords and their businesses were all destroyed. Years of the Sikhs hard work had shattered. </p><p> The Afghan Hindus and Sikhs were over 50, 000 in total before 1992 in areas like Ghazni, Jalalabad, Khandahar, Khost, Kabul and Laghman. Today there are only about 1500 Sikhs living, mostly in Kabul. The only ones that remained in Afghanistan are the ones who had no relative abroad or not enough resources to migrate somewhere else.</p><p> After 2001, many Sikhs have had serious problems and been denied freedom to practice their culture and rituals within the Afghanistan borders. An attempt to cremate a Sikh body in Kabul led to tensions between the local communities as the cremation was seen as going against beliefs of Islam—the majority religion practiced now in Afghanistan.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>More about History of Afghanistan <span style="color: Blue"><a href="http://www.afghanan.net/afghanistan/durrani.htm" target="_blank">History of Afghanistan</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vikram singh, post: 122520, member: 1078"] By Jagmit Singh [B]Kabul, Afghanistan – [/B]The recent beheading of Sikhs by the Taliban in Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, has reminded the community of the hardships they face on both side of the Pakistan, Afghanistan border today. Two Sikhs men were reportedly beheaded by the Taliban in the FATA region of Pakistan, with their heads later being dropped at a gurdwara in Peshawar. Still, reports suggest that other Sikhs are under hostage. Last year the Pakistani Taliban militants had taken over shops and homes of Sikh families in the Orakzai Agency, while making demand for ransom. This year’s incidents are repeated attacks from last year, with threats to the Sikh community to convert, if they want to continuing living in Peshawar or even living at all. [IMG]http://www.chakranews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Afghan-Sikhs-constantly-face-threats.jpg[/IMG] [SIZE=1]Afghan Sikhs sit around the coffin of community elder Lachman Singh during a protest in Kabul September 17, 2007. Around 100 angry Afghan Sikhs carried a coffin to the United Nations headquarters in Kabul on Monday, accusing Muslims of stopping them cremating the dead man.[/SIZE] The Sikhs have been living in this region of Peshawar for a long time, historically. India is acclaimed as Sikh’s homeland while they were settling in Afghanistan over phases of its history, especially in the early nineteenth century when the Afghans lost Peshawar to the Sikhs. Over the last few centuries, descendents of Sikhs traders have settled in Afghanistan starting in Sindh and Punjab through Kandahar, Jalalabad, as well as Kabul. The trade routes created through these settlements, went across the Hindu Kush to Samarkand, Merv and into Europe. During the partition of India, a late migration occurred when many Sikhs living in Pakistan, near the Afghan border found it easier to find refuge in Afghanistan rather than taking a risk to travel across the country to go to India. This new group of Sikh refugees made Afghanistan their home and they are known as the Afghan Sikhs who formed a more ethnically diverse Afghanistan. Just as they came in during different times in history, the Sikhs also left in different phases—out of the country. Some left during the Soviet War, dying on their way because of the bombings of the war. The displacement caused by the war made many travel to India to find a temporary place to live but it turned out to not be temporary after all. When they returned home shortly, their homes were taken over by warlords and their businesses were all destroyed. Years of the Sikhs hard work had shattered. The Afghan Hindus and Sikhs were over 50, 000 in total before 1992 in areas like Ghazni, Jalalabad, Khandahar, Khost, Kabul and Laghman. Today there are only about 1500 Sikhs living, mostly in Kabul. The only ones that remained in Afghanistan are the ones who had no relative abroad or not enough resources to migrate somewhere else. After 2001, many Sikhs have had serious problems and been denied freedom to practice their culture and rituals within the Afghanistan borders. An attempt to cremate a Sikh body in Kabul led to tensions between the local communities as the cremation was seen as going against beliefs of Islam—the majority religion practiced now in Afghanistan. More about History of Afghanistan [COLOR=Blue][URL="http://www.afghanan.net/afghanistan/durrani.htm"]History of Afghanistan[/URL][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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