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020 $a0198265328 (Oxford University Press) ;$c£15.00
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100 1 $aMcLeod, W. H.
245 10 $aEarly Sikh tradition :$ba study of the janam-sākhīs /$cby W. H. McLeod.
260 0 $aOxford :$bClarendon Press ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1980.
300 $axiv, 317 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
504 $aBibliography: p. [292]-294.
505 0 $a1. The historical setting: the Panjab 1500-1800 -- 2. The Janam-sakhis: A definition and summary description -- 3. The principal Janam-sakhis -- The Bala janam-sakhis -- The Puratan janam-sakhis -- The Adi Sakhis -- The Miharban tradition -- Gyan-ratanavali -- The Mahima Prakas tradition -- Individual janam-sakhis -- Miscellaneous works closely related to the janam-sakhis -- 4. The language of the Janam-sakhis -- 5. The origins and growth of the Janam-sakhi traditions -- 6. Constituents of the Janam-sakhis -- Episodes from the life of Nanak -- Received tradition -- The epics and the Puranas -- Nath tradition -- Sufi tradition -- The works of Guru Nanak -- Ascetic ideas -- 7. Janam-sakhi forms -- Narrative anecdotes -- Moralistic anecdotes -Chimeric fairy-tales -- Devotional legends -- Aetiological legends -- Narrative discourses -- Didactic discourses -- Heterodox discourses -- Codes of discipline -- 8. The assembling and transmission of the Janam-sakhi traditions -- 9. The evolution of Sakhis -- Baba Nanak's visit to Multan -- Mula the Khatri -- Sajjan/Bhola the robber -- The rich man's pennants -- Baba Nanak returns to Talvandi -- Baba Nanak's discourse with Sheikh Braham -- Baba Nanak's visit to Mecca -- Discourses with Naths -- Raja Sivanabh -- Guru Angad -- Mardana and Bala -- 10. Sources used by the Janam-sakhi compilers -- Narrative I -- Narrative II -- Others sources of the Adi Sakhis -- Other sources of the B40 Janam-sakhi -- A summary of the B40 sources -- A summary of the janam-sakhi sources -- 11. Purpose, function, value -- 12. The purpose of Janam-sakhis -- 13. The function of Janam-sakhis -- 14. The Janam-sakhis as historical sources -- The janam-sakhis as sources for the life of Guru Nanak -- The janam-sakhi image of Baba Nanak -- The Sikh community in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The janam-sakhis as sources for the wider history of the Panjab -- 15. The Janam-sakhis in Panjabi literature.
650 0 $aPurātana janama sākhī.
655 7 $aJanam-sākhis.$2swd
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