Japji: First Hymn of Adi Granth

By Man Mohan Singh

It is a renderingan interpretation of a very complex idiom. It attempts to keep intact all the metaphysical ambiguities and mystical rhythms of the original text that are generally lost in normal translations. The author has eminently succeeded in this linguistic exercise.
H.S. Gill, Professor EmeritusCentre of Linguistics & EnglishSchools of Language, Literature, & Culture StudiesJawaharlal Nehru UniversityNew Delhi, India

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jun 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781452515199

Man Mohan Singh

This is the authors unique exposure, under the heading poetry to deal with the spectrum of human experiences. The author has already rendered a scripture under the title ‘Japji’ in verse, which has been very well received.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-1518-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-1519-9 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/05/2014

Contents

PREFACE

FOREWORD

NOTE

JAPJI SAHIB

JAPJI

INTRODUCTION TO

NANAK’S CONCEPT OF ONE

NANAK’S

CONCEPT OF ONE

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PREFACE

Any translation from one language to another has its limitations. To Find exact equivalent to the colloquials used, is almost impossible. Each colloquy gets its meaning by its repeated usage in the culture and environ in which it used. As such it is always the translators’ effort to get to the nearest possible in meaning.

This becomes all the more difficult when the matter to be translated is verse and still more so when verse is scripture.

With these limitations it has been an humble effort in the translation to be as near to the literal and at the same time without loosing the