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Max Arthur MacAuliffe (1838 - 1913)

The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909, Six volumes bound in three

Three volumes, containing six parts as issued:
Vol. I, pp. 471, Guru Nanak, his life and writings.
Vol. II, pp. 351, The lives and hymns of the second, third and fourth Gurus.
Vol. III, pp. 444, The life of Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru, and his hymns, photograph of his shrine.
Vol. IV, pp. 421, The lives of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth Gurus and the hymns of the ninth Guru, Teg Bahadur; photographs of the Akal Bunga and the Baba Atal tower, Amritsar.
Vol. V, pp. 351, The life of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru; his compositions; his stance against idolatry; his epistle to the Emperor Aurangzeb; a discussion of the musical measures of his hymns; photographs of the shrine at Fatagarh, Muktsar, the temple at Nander, and an Akali.
Vol. VI, pp. 453, Supplementary religious texts, including the Bhagats of the Granth Sahib, the life and hymns of Jaidev and of Namdev, Kabir, and Rav Das, a photograph of Namdev's shrine at Ghuman, and of two Sikh holy men, index.
Bound in publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on spines, with Clarendon Press device stamped in gilt on lower portion of spine panels (each)
8.5 x 6.25 in (21.8 x 16 cm) (each)

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