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'I''lfT the, candidate is al)ove all prejl diCes; Many

photo-plates have 'belm' appended' to' th is volume for providing

ready referenueS to the' argumellts.

This diss'eHati6n

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w i t h ' o ~ e ' of tl\\;' most conti'()vertial'

topics in the'wholeran '(O'()fPanjabi literature nd

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literature of the Sikhs on the one hand and of the Puranic

Sanskrit Literature on the other. The'Dasam Granth is traditiona

lly attributed to the Tenth Ponti f Guru Govind Singh

ana

much

has beart' Wtlitcll' for' lorig years

to

prove the genuinety or

otherwiSe';'· i6f''( lts" au.thorship.'

In

deciding the question

the

author

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inh ·bitions and has exercised extreme impartial care s behoves

a critical literary approach.

The conglomeration of this extremely diverse material

under the same cover presents a baffling problem. The present

thesis is a successful probe into

the

mystery of

the

authorship

and

compilation {)f

the

several pieces, e.xtracts

and

fragments

constituting

the

available corpus

of

this scripture.

For

this

purpose he has set before himself an ambitious programme of

literary criticism based on n examination of t h ~ p ~ e s e r v e , ~

MSS

and a comparative study of the puranic study of the

puranic contents

with

their Sanskrit sources

The major findings of this r ~ s e a r c h work show that the

contents

of

the puranic chapters of the Dasam Granth do

not

accord. with.

the

ideas

and

personality

of

Guru GovindSingh.

that

they

were

the

compositions of his

d a r ~ i

poets like

Ram, Sayam whose names occur in the stanzas or padas

that

many

of

the puranic legends

tally

with their putanic sources

but

there are also numerous instances of variation rid

difference

and

that

several documents. like the letter of Bhai Mani' Singh

and the Khas Patras are spurious (P. 129/139)

and

cannot

be admitte d as genuine to prove the authorship or ant iquity of

the puranie portions. Inspite of the above, the Dasam Granth

is of an in-estimate .value for the history of Hindi L iterature and

of the development

of

the Sikh religion

at

a critical stage of

its I;:IOwt\l at t,he time of Guru Govind Singh when a rapproach

ment to Hinduism was thecrying need of the hour.

. The thesis displays m a t u r ~ j u d g e m e n t and patient industry:

in

the

compiiation ;\\nd sifting of ,evidence

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t

is

presented in an

excellent literary style. an'd affords a delightful reading, This

is

in brief, the. a s s e s s ~ e n t of , the thesis according to

the

External

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Examiners.

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi.

Head pf Hindi Department .

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