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Guru Granth Sahib
The Guru Granth Sahib is the central holy scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and eternal Guru after the ten human gurus. Its first rendition, the Adi Granth, was compiled by the fifth guru, Guru Arjan, completed in 1604 and installed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar; Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru, added the hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur and affirmed the text as his successor in 1708. It has 1,430 angs (pages), arranged by 31 main rāgas, and is written in the Gurmukhi script. Composed mainly by six Sikh gurus, it also holds the teachings of Hindu Bhakti sants such as Kabir and Namdev and of the Sufi saint Sheikh Farid.
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