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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)
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 145441" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>On learning a language</p><p></p><p>An Introduction to Punjabi: Grammar, Conversation and Literature</p><p>By Gurinder Singh Mann, Gurdit Singh, Ami P. Shah, Gibb Schreffler and Anne Murphy.</p><p>Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, Patiala.</p><p>Pages 354. Rs 700.</p><p>Reviewed by Tejwant Singh Gill</p><p></p><p>THIS book is a manual on teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language. Its primary author, Professor Gurinder Singh Mann, heads Chair for Sikh Studies at the University of Santa Barbara, USA. This position enjoins upon him to do research work on the history and religion of the Sikhs. His work in this field goes beyond narration and description, and is chiefly concerned with analysis and evaluation.</p><p></p><p>New concerns and renewed insights have convinced him that the Punjabi people, migrating abroad, can acquire visibility at a great risk to their historical past. This risk forces them to renounce their culture and forget their language. Such a visibility cannot enable them to claim presence without which their humanity is at stake. Holding onto the residual elements of their past can bring them no solace. The real solace can come only from emergent reorientation, for which the learning of their own language through skills forged and methods developed abroad is indeed a categorical imperative.</p><p></p><p>To feel the need of this imperative is good enough, but to realise it in concrete form is so very creditable. The author has full claim to this credit, which might have eluded him if worthy associates had not supplanted his cause. Of the four associates, two are Americans by birth and one is an Indian of Gujarati origin. Only one is a Sikh who can claim Punjabi as his native tongue. Interestingly enough, such associates, with their differing background, have been helpful in preparing this manual aimed at the teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language.</p><p></p><p>How teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language varies from the learning of it as a native language is the issue the author and his associates have faced and resolved in an ingenious way. The learning of a native language is spontaneous and it precedes its deliberate teaching. Utterance is its essential mode that is not identical with forming a sentence. A single word may stand for a sentence. Its utterance in low, medium or high tone may convey varied sense. It is not so in the teaching of a language, particularly when it is of a foreign origin, where grasping the meanings of words, using them in sentences framing a conversation are taught to those for whom being students comes before becoming learners.</p><p></p><p>Spontaneous learning can flourish the most in the milieu, the aspects and facets of which are not just denoted but more so are connoted by words inhabiting the concerned language. Such a milieu is not available in foreign countries, which are being flocked by the Punjabi people from India and Pakistan. Their visibility is increasing but it can grow into presence only if their contact with Punjabi language gets revitalised. Ironically enough, it is getting devitalised even in the Indian and Pakistani Punjab.</p><p></p><p>Well-intentioned individuals in England, Canada and the US have been trying to meet this eventuality. Manuals meant to teach Punjabi are circulating, mostly used in religious places to acquaint children of migrant families from Punjab with the script of their native language so as to enable them to speak fluently and read it correctly. However, these perfunctory manuals do not enable them to write in Punjabi effectively and veritably. This is essential for not just the competence but also the disposition to do so can replenish their communication and expression to be original in the etymological sense, beyond what it is usually taken to be different in the metaphorical sense.</p><p></p><p>It is to cultivate the second type of originality that this manual, product of a decade’s diligence, has its cherished aim. It is very comprehensive in scope and range. It begins by acquainting the student with the Gurmukhi alphabet and trudging through the dissemination of grammar, diction and syntax, and culminates in literary appreciation of poetry and prose. Coherence determines the trajectory of this plan, which does get cohesive at places only when overreaching gets the better of explication. This happens as a result of effort flatly meant to underline the specificity of a speaker. Rather than covertly suggest his/her religious faith, is overtly emphasised.</p><p></p><p>The whole manual is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the script, phonology, tenses, voices, tones and sentence-formation. They are dealt with in all their variety and diversity. There comes to mind no aspect or facet which may have been left out advertently or inadvertently. Twenty lessons exhaust the whole scheme, and at the end of each there are exercises for the student to attempt in the light of acumen gathered from grasping the lessons. This enables the student to grow into a learner. In this way, spontaneous learning changes into conscious learning through the impulse generated by deliberate teaching.</p><p></p><p>The second part, Language through Literature, comprises two sections. In the first section are poems portraying the terrain of Punjab. To begin with, it is portrayed as both beautiful and bountiful. It is an idyllic state that charms both the Hindu and the Muslim poets. Then figure poems by Mohan Singh and others who put the romantic nature of its people over the performance of rites and rituals. From the exterior, it is a probing of the interior that assumes stark proportion under the gruesome burden of Partition. Amrita Pritam’s poems voice this starkness in haunting words. Towards the end are poems by modern poets Pash, Surjit Patar and others who express the sense of quandary and dislocation that has overwhelmed the feelings and emotions of the Punjabi people, inhabiting both the Punjabs and beyond where they have migrated to experience visibility sans presence.</p><p></p><p>However, the second section, comprising Punjabi prose, pales in comparison. The great prose writers, Bhai Vir Singh, Gurbax Preetlari and Sant Singh Sekhon, who caused epistemological break in Punjabi prose, are not included. The students, turned into learners, miss being cognitive. Vernacular Literature offers interesting material but without fully portraying the contradictions and paradoxes inhering the commonsense of the Punjabi people. However, these flaws are only as dark spots on the moon. Otherwise, like the beauty of the moon, the value of the manual is unflawed.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110417/spectrum/book1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110417/spectrum/book1.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 145441, member: 35"] On learning a language An Introduction to Punjabi: Grammar, Conversation and Literature By Gurinder Singh Mann, Gurdit Singh, Ami P. Shah, Gibb Schreffler and Anne Murphy. Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, Patiala. Pages 354. Rs 700. Reviewed by Tejwant Singh Gill THIS book is a manual on teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language. Its primary author, Professor Gurinder Singh Mann, heads Chair for Sikh Studies at the University of Santa Barbara, USA. This position enjoins upon him to do research work on the history and religion of the Sikhs. His work in this field goes beyond narration and description, and is chiefly concerned with analysis and evaluation. New concerns and renewed insights have convinced him that the Punjabi people, migrating abroad, can acquire visibility at a great risk to their historical past. This risk forces them to renounce their culture and forget their language. Such a visibility cannot enable them to claim presence without which their humanity is at stake. Holding onto the residual elements of their past can bring them no solace. The real solace can come only from emergent reorientation, for which the learning of their own language through skills forged and methods developed abroad is indeed a categorical imperative. To feel the need of this imperative is good enough, but to realise it in concrete form is so very creditable. The author has full claim to this credit, which might have eluded him if worthy associates had not supplanted his cause. Of the four associates, two are Americans by birth and one is an Indian of Gujarati origin. Only one is a Sikh who can claim Punjabi as his native tongue. Interestingly enough, such associates, with their differing background, have been helpful in preparing this manual aimed at the teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language. How teaching of Punjabi as a foreign language varies from the learning of it as a native language is the issue the author and his associates have faced and resolved in an ingenious way. The learning of a native language is spontaneous and it precedes its deliberate teaching. Utterance is its essential mode that is not identical with forming a sentence. A single word may stand for a sentence. Its utterance in low, medium or high tone may convey varied sense. It is not so in the teaching of a language, particularly when it is of a foreign origin, where grasping the meanings of words, using them in sentences framing a conversation are taught to those for whom being students comes before becoming learners. Spontaneous learning can flourish the most in the milieu, the aspects and facets of which are not just denoted but more so are connoted by words inhabiting the concerned language. Such a milieu is not available in foreign countries, which are being flocked by the Punjabi people from India and Pakistan. Their visibility is increasing but it can grow into presence only if their contact with Punjabi language gets revitalised. Ironically enough, it is getting devitalised even in the Indian and Pakistani Punjab. Well-intentioned individuals in England, Canada and the US have been trying to meet this eventuality. Manuals meant to teach Punjabi are circulating, mostly used in religious places to acquaint children of migrant families from Punjab with the script of their native language so as to enable them to speak fluently and read it correctly. However, these perfunctory manuals do not enable them to write in Punjabi effectively and veritably. This is essential for not just the competence but also the disposition to do so can replenish their communication and expression to be original in the etymological sense, beyond what it is usually taken to be different in the metaphorical sense. It is to cultivate the second type of originality that this manual, product of a decade’s diligence, has its cherished aim. It is very comprehensive in scope and range. It begins by acquainting the student with the Gurmukhi alphabet and trudging through the dissemination of grammar, diction and syntax, and culminates in literary appreciation of poetry and prose. Coherence determines the trajectory of this plan, which does get cohesive at places only when overreaching gets the better of explication. This happens as a result of effort flatly meant to underline the specificity of a speaker. Rather than covertly suggest his/her religious faith, is overtly emphasised. The whole manual is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the script, phonology, tenses, voices, tones and sentence-formation. They are dealt with in all their variety and diversity. There comes to mind no aspect or facet which may have been left out advertently or inadvertently. Twenty lessons exhaust the whole scheme, and at the end of each there are exercises for the student to attempt in the light of acumen gathered from grasping the lessons. This enables the student to grow into a learner. In this way, spontaneous learning changes into conscious learning through the impulse generated by deliberate teaching. The second part, Language through Literature, comprises two sections. In the first section are poems portraying the terrain of Punjab. To begin with, it is portrayed as both beautiful and bountiful. It is an idyllic state that charms both the Hindu and the Muslim poets. Then figure poems by Mohan Singh and others who put the romantic nature of its people over the performance of rites and rituals. From the exterior, it is a probing of the interior that assumes stark proportion under the gruesome burden of Partition. Amrita Pritam’s poems voice this starkness in haunting words. Towards the end are poems by modern poets Pash, Surjit Patar and others who express the sense of quandary and dislocation that has overwhelmed the feelings and emotions of the Punjabi people, inhabiting both the Punjabs and beyond where they have migrated to experience visibility sans presence. However, the second section, comprising Punjabi prose, pales in comparison. The great prose writers, Bhai Vir Singh, Gurbax Preetlari and Sant Singh Sekhon, who caused epistemological break in Punjabi prose, are not included. The students, turned into learners, miss being cognitive. Vernacular Literature offers interesting material but without fully portraying the contradictions and paradoxes inhering the commonsense of the Punjabi people. However, these flaws are only as dark spots on the moon. Otherwise, like the beauty of the moon, the value of the manual is unflawed. [url]http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110417/spectrum/book1.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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