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Recent Research and Debates in Adi Granth Studies
Author(s) -
Singh Pashaura
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00115.x
Subject(s) - copying , process (computing) , isolation (microbiology) , psychology , epistemology , literature , computer science , philosophy , art , political science , law , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , operating system
Recent debates in Adi Granth studies have exposed two divergent approaches on the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition. The first approach stresses a linear process that began with a single source and then diversified into separate textual strands with minor variations that we encounter in the available manuscripts of the Adi Granth. The second approach lays emphasis on the development of ‘independent’ textual traditions in different geographical areas in isolation from one another in the process of repeated copying and correction over generation of scribal activity. The present article offers an analysis of a new source, the Bhai Rupa Pothi (book), highlighting the third alternative of the ‘theory of working drafts’ prepared under the direct supervision of Guru Arjan.