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64 A HISTORY OF HINDI LITERATURE for the most part the hymns are written in old dialects of Hindi with some admixture of Panjabi. A hymn of Guru Nanak was given in a previous chapter. The following is one of the hymns of Guru Arjun : — " On the way where the miles cannot be counted, The name of God shall there be thy provision ; On the way where there is pitch darkness, The name of God shall accompany and light thee ; On the way where nobody knoweth thee, The name of God shall be there to recognise thee ; Where there is very terrible heat and great sunshine, There the name of God shall be a shadow over thee ; There, saith Nanak, the name of God shall rain nectar on thee." The tenth Guru, whose name was Govind Siyigh, held office from 1675 to 1708. It was he who devel- oped the Sikhs into a great military order called the Khalsa and organized them to resist the Muhammadans. Under him many Hindu ideas were introduced into the religion of the Sikhs. Govind Singh composed many verses mostly in Hindi (Braj Bhasha), but some also in Persian and Panjabi. These works, together with the translations and other verses of some in the Guru's employ, were collected in the year 1734, after Govind Singh's death, by Bhai Mani Singh into one volume, which is called the Gra7ith of the Te7ith Giiru to distin- guish it from the Adi Grayith. It is used for the promotion of valour and other purposes, but it is not regarded by the Sikhs as having the same authority as the Adi Granth. Besides the Japji, or hymns, in praise of God, and many other religious verses, it contains the Vichitr Natak, which is an account of the life and mission of Govind Singh, and other poems calculated to stir up the martial valour of the Sikhs. The Dadupanthis.— The founder of the sect of Dadupanthis was Dadu (1544-1603), who was born at Ahmedabad, but spent most of his life in Rajputana. According to common report he was a cotton-carder by caste, but the tradition of his followers that he 1 Translation by Macauliffe, "The Sikh Religion," Vol. III. 202.