PM Modi greets people on Prakash Purab Utsav of ‘Guru Granth Sahib’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today greeted people on the Prakash Purab Utsav of the holy book Guru Granth Sahib.

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Key-Points

The first Prakash Purab Utsav marked the installation of Guru Granth Sahib in Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden temple, in 1604.

Guru Granth Sahib is the central religious scripture of Sikhs. It is regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and eternal living Guru following the lineage of the ten human gurus of the religion.

The Adi Granth, its first rendition, was compiled by the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan (1563–1606).

Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, did not add any of his own hymns; however, he added all 115 hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, to the Adi Granth and affirmed the text as his successor.

This second rendition became known as Guru Granth Sahib and is sometimes also referred to as Adi Granth.

The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script, in various languages, including Lahnda, Braj Bhasha, Kauravi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, and Persian.