The publisher of this ‘Janamsakhi’ has given the following
Note -
From the above writing, the date of writing of this Janamsaki
can be known. The method stated by Sardar Karam Singh Historian
is this: At that time Kal Yug had completed 4,735 years. Now in
1983 Bikrami (1926 A.D), Kal Yug has completed 5,026 years. The
difference between the two is 291 years. This means 291 years
have elapsed, since this Janamsakhi was first written.
It was, therefore, in 1692 Bikrami (1635 A.D) that this
Janamsakhi was written. Guru Hargobind remained Guru from 1606-
1644 A.D.
Even if this Janamsakhi had not indicated the date when it
was written, it could have been estimated. It could not be before
the time of Guru Arjan Dev, because the author misquoted Guru
Arjan Dev’s writings as that of Guru Nanak Dev’s. At the same
time, this could not have been much later from the time of Guru
Arjan Dev, as the language used is very old.
In this Janamsakhi, many Shabads and Sloks are such as we
do not find in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The Sloks and Shabads quoted
are fake. We have since established the fact that each of the Gurus
wrote his own Compositions and handed over the whole stock of
Compositions to the Successor Guru. What is the relation between
the fake compositions later smuggled into the copies of the Holy
Book and those compositions appearing in Janamsakhis in the name
of the Guru. We snall deal with this aspect later in its details. For
the present we are examining the other Janamsakhis. When we
carefully read the spurious Sloks and Shabads given in the ‘Puratan
Janamsakhi’, we obseve that in those compositions there is not a
single instance, where any of these compositions was incorporated
in the old hand-written copies of the Holy Book. there, we have
come to the firm conclusion that the author of ‘Puratan Janamsakhi’
was not involved in tampering with the contents of old hand-written
copies of Guru Granth Sahib. This author lived during the period
earlier to that of Guru Tegh Bahadur. We have to search other
sources of these fake compositions and the mischief mongers.

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