This then is the only scripture of the world which was compiled by one of the founders of religion himself and whose authenticity has never been questioned. And this whole has come down to us in its original purity. Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last Sikh Guru, added some of the sayings of his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, to the volume (and possibly One couplet of his own). Bhai Gurdas Ji was also the maternal uncle of the 5th Guru. Some writings of the Gurus were collected from other sources as well, and the whole was put to writing, after a good deal of judicious pruning to separate the apocryphal writings, by Bhai Gurdas, a disciple of the Gurus, under the direct supervision of Guru Arjun himself. From him, Guru Arjun procured these after some hard persuasion, as the holy Granth itself testifies. The latter had even added some of the popular sayings of the Hindu Bhaktas and Muslim Sufis as well.Īssembled in two volumes, the manuscripts lay with Baba Mohan, son of Guru Amar Das, the third Sikh Guru. He already had before him the hymns of his four predecessors collected and put to writing by the second and the third Sikh Gurus. The Guru Granth Sahib was compiled by the fifth Sikh Guru, Arjun, in 1604 A.D.
