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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]

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"Gyan Ratnavali manuscripts". Sikh History: lives of the Gurus. https://sikh-history.co.uk/artifacts/gyan-ratanavali-manuscripts/