*whoosh* <– What’s that sound you ask? Well that’s the sound of another cool book and worthwhile read flying your way. Compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib by Professor Sahib Singh (translation by Sardar Dalip Singh) is a really interesting and quick read about how the Sri Guru Granth as we know it today came to be.

Why the venerated Professor wrote this:

One day we, the members of faculty, were sitting in a verandah opposite to the’ staff room, a Professor told me that he had read first three chapters of my book on Gurbani te Itihas Baare – Gurus’ Compositions and the related History”, and’ the maximum one could say was that Guru Amar Das had with him some of the Compositions of Guru Nanak Dev. It could not, however, be established that Guru Amar Das had with him all the compositions.

Any other person after reading those three chapters could form the same opinion. People could still have the misconcept that it was. Guru Arjan Dev, the 5th Guru, who collected the Compositions of all the preceding Gurus. In order to solve this intricate problem, I undertook to compare all, the Compositions of Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Amar Das and wrote the book “Adi Birh Bare – About Compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib” during 1949 A.D.

This really is a very interesting read, and I highly suggest all of you guys check it out

Demo here

From the README:

Nanakshahi date function
The function’s work just like the php’s date() & time()function.
But it returns everything according to the Nanakshahi calendar.

For example
Timestamp:            1110790861
date() function returns:        Monday, 14 March 2005 – 01:01:01 AM
nanakshahi_date() function returns:    ਸੌਮਞਾਰ, 01 ਚੇਤ 537 – 01:01:01 ਸਵੇਰ

Instructions, the library, and the demo are included in the archive.

Originally from http://punjabis.netfirms.com/

A good option for non-windows users or people on other java-enabled platforms. It works sufficiently well and definetly meets it’s goal of providing something to put up for the sangat to follow along. I will add the download files to the downloads section soon, but all the relevant and up-to-date files are available on the SGDV website

At about 200 pages, this book is a very quick and fast read, most Sikhs and people knowledgeable about Sikhism reading it can skip straight to the 7th chapter, as the beginning of the book is a brief summary of who and what sikhs are.

Going around the web browsing various Sikh and Punjabi websites you run into a lot of different Punjabi fonts used all over the place. To that end I’ve put together this fontpack of all the various Punjabi (and Punjabi-ish) fonts that one would regularly run into around the web. Download link, File list , and some advice after the break.

The included files are:

• Akaash-Bold.ttf
• Akaash.ttf
• AmbarKalmi.ttf
• AmbarLight-Bold.ttf
• AmbarLight.ttf
• AmbarNarrow.ttf
• AmbarNeon.ttf
• AmbarOutlined.ttf
• AmbarRaised.ttf
• AmbarShadow.ttf
• AmbarSlim.ttf
• AmbarUbhri.ttf
• AMRHINDI.TTF
• Amrita_1.ttf
• AMRLIPI.TTF
• AMRLIP_L.TTF
• AMRLIP_S.TTF
• AMR_HEAV.TTF
• AMR_L_B.TTF
• AMR_NEON.TTF
• AMR_OUT.TTF
• Anmo000.ttf
• AnmolUni-Bold.ttf
• AnmolUni.ttf
• AnmolUniBani-Bold.ttf
• AnmolUniBani.ttf
• AnmolUniBaniHeavy.ttf
• AnmolUniHeavy.ttf
• ANMOL_.TTF
• ANMOL_B.TTF
• ANMOL_HE.TTF
• ANMOL_K.TTF
• ANMOL_L.TTF
• ANMOL_OU.TTF
• ANMOL_RA.TTF
• ANMOL_S.TTF
• ANMOL_T.TTF
• ANMOL_U.TTF
• ANM_L_BO.TTF
• ANM_NEON.TTF
• ANM_THTI.TTF
• ChatrikUni.ttf
• GUAK_TH.TTF
• guiigs__.ttf
• GURAKHAR.TTF
• GURAKH_H.TTF
• GURAKH_L.TTF
• GURAKH_S.TTF
• GURBLIPI.TTF
• GURBLI_L.TTF
• GURB_B.TTF
• GURB_L_B.TTF
• Gurb_rg.ttf
• GURHINDI.TTF
• Gurmi___.ttf
• GURROMAN.TTF
• PNAM0ntt.ttf
• PUNAdhunikB1.ttf
• PUNAdhunikN1.ttf
• raavi.ttf
• hsukhmani.TTF

That’s 60 fonts for your enjoyment!

While I have included all of these fonts for conveniences sake, I would not suggest you install all of these fonts if you are using Microsoft Windows, as the more fonts you have installed, the longer your boot-up times and load times on certain applications. Just install the fonts you need as you need them!

If there are some fonts you think are missing and should be included, either link to them in the comments, email them to me, or upload them to the download section and I will update the pack accordingly