Artifact
Gyan Ratnavali manuscripts
also Mani Singh Janam Sakhi
Manuscripts of a collection of 225 stories traditionally credited to Bhai Mani Singh.[EoS]
- Date
- 1834 and 1838 at Khalsa College. One copy carries the date 1721, probably wrongly
- Held by
- Khalsa College, Amritsar, and a private collection at Patiala
- Location
- Amritsar and Patiala
- Provenance
- Attributed
- Status: Held
- From the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism (1992-98). It adds that four undated copies listed by S.S. Ashok were probably destroyed in 1984.
Three lithographed editions appeared in Lahore between 1891 and 1908.
What is disputed
- Authorship
Some modern scholars doubt that Bhai Mani Singh wrote it, or suspect later additions.[EoS]