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Guru Harsahai Pothi that was authored by Guru Nanak

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English: Identified handwriting of Guru Nanak from the Guru Harsahai Pothi. It is believed Guru Nanak gave his writings to Guru Angad after he passed on the guruship. During this time the Gurmukhi script was still in its developing stages. As such, there was no "Kanna" in the Gurmukhi writing here. The script used by Guru Nanak here is most likely an early stage of what would become Gurmukhi, referred to as 'proto-Gurmukhi' by scholars and academics. The writings of Guru Nanak and other early gurus were kept by their custodians, the Sodhis of Guru Har Sahai, who claim to be the descendants of Guru Ram Das through his second son, Meharban. Unfortunately, it is believed the Guru Har Sahai Pothi is now lost.

Note: the word 'pothi' originally meant 'book' in Punjabi. However, amongst Sikhs the term evolved to refer to a sacred book, especially one containing gurbani or scriptural texts and of a moderate size (smaller excerpts are referred to as 'gutkas').

URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/akaalsingh/3371428802/

Further reading: https://doi.org/10.1093/0195130243.003.0003
Date circa 1530's
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1) Flickr photostream of user akaal_singh, URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/akaalsingh/

2) https://www.angelfire.com/folk/pothimala/relics/relics.htm
Author Guru Nanak

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