Artifact

Adi Sakhian manuscripts

also Shambhu Nath Vali Janam Patri

Janam sakhi manuscripts first found at Lahore, whose earliest dated copies were written in 1701.[EoS]

Date

1701 (1758 Bk) for the earliest dated copies

Held by

Moti Bagh Palace library, Patiala, and other collections

Location

Patiala, Lahore and elsewhere

Provenance

Documented

Status: Held

The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism (1992-98) reports a copy found in the Panjab University library in Lahore before 1947, and four more in India, including Moti Bagh Palace and the Sikh Reference Library. It does not say whether the Sikh Reference Library copy survived 1984.