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SELECT OPINIONS OF Eminent Scholars and High Personages - >***** Sardar Kahan Singh of Nabha has spent 14 years in the compilation of a monumental work in Punjabi, called the Gurshabd Ratnakar. This work is in fact an Encyclopædia of Sikh Religion, and a Dictionary of Sikh Literature. Incidentally it would be of value as a Dictionary of the Punjabi and Hindi languages, although this is not its main object. Derivations have been given and meanings of words, illustrated with quotations, drawn from all important works of Sikh Literature. Difficult quotations are accompanied by translation in modern Punjabi. A work of this kind has long been needed for the proper study of Sikh Literature. The author is to be congratulated on the completion of his task. In my opinion the undertaking is worthy of all possible assistance from the Government, the Sikh States and general public. A. C. WOOLNER, Dean of University. Instruction and Principal, Oriental College, Lahore. I have read some portions of the manuscript copy of Sardar Kahan Singh's “Encyclopædia of Sikh Literature and have been greatly struck with the most arduous labour and attention which have been bestowed upon its compilation. Explanations of Persian and Arabic words have been given with scrupulous care and attention. Comments on technical and theological terms belonging to other religions have been made in a liberal spirit without showing the least sign of sectarianism. In other countries literary works of such dimensions are undertaken by a group of scholars working together, but Sardar Kahan Singh has shouldered the whole burden unaided and produced a Thesaurus of learning after a constant labour of 14 years. He has thereby done a great service to the Punjabi language and literature. (DIWAN) TEK CHAND, 1. c. S., M. R. A. S., Commissioner, Ambala Division. Sardar Kahan Singh of Nabha is a great scholar of Sikh Literature and author of some works on Sikhism, Rhetoric and Prosody. Now he has prepared a comprehensive Dictionary of Guru Granth Sahib and other sacred and historical books of the Sikhs. This is a stupendous work in many volumes, the result of 14 years' strenuous labour and considerable expense. (iii)
