Guru Arjan compiles the Adi Granth, the first Sikh scripture, setting the hymns of the first five Gurus beside those of Hindu and Muslim saints such as Kabir and Farid, and installs it in the Harimandir with Baba Buddha as its first reader; the book becomes the community's center.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1604 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Amritsar; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari, The Khalsa Panth
- Key figures
- Guru Arjan, Bhai Gurdas, Baba Buddha
- Key texts
- Adi Granth
Primary Sources
- The Kartarpur recension of the Adi Granth
Secondary Sources
- McLeod, Sikhism (Penguin, 1997)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0507; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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