单词 | adi granth |
释义 | Adi Granthn. Sikhism. The sacred scripture of the Sikhs; spec. the teachings and religious poetry of the first five Sikh Gurus, compiled in the early 17th cent. Cf. Granth n., Guru Granth Sahib n.The 17th-cent. text was expanded during the 18th cent. and this later redaction became known as the Guru Granth Sahib, although the terms Adi Granth and Guru Granth Sahib are sometimes used interchangeably. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > non-Judaeo-Christian scriptures > [noun] > Granth (Sikh) Grantha1792 Adi Granth1812 Guru Granth Sahib1928 1812 J. Malcolm Sketch of Sikhs i. 31 The Adi-Grant'h, or first sacred volume of the Sikhs, contains ninety-two sections. 1886 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 18 441 As originally arranged by Guru Arjun, the Adi Granth had a collection of poems for every musical semitone of the stabaka. 1917 I. Goldziher Mohammed & Islam vi. 327 The author of the Adi Granth conceived a religious view of the world in which Hinduism and Islam were to be united. 1961 P. Spear India xxii. 249 The fifth Guru, Arjun, compiled the Adigranth, or first scripture of the community, containing many devotional poems which are now continuously recited by devotees in the Golden Temple. 2008 A. Albinia Empires of Indus (2010) v. 111 In Sukkur every temple has a room set aside for veneration of the Adi Granth, the Sikh holy book. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1812 |
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