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Bijak is the best known of the compilations of the compositions of Kabir. Depiction of saint Kabir on the cover of a Hindi magazine named Shree Kabir Gyanamrit Kabīr (also Kabīra) (Hindi: कबीर, Gurmukhī: ਕਬੀਰ, Urdu: ‎) (1398—1518)(dubious; discuss) was an Indian mystic; a Bhakti saint who sang the ideals of seeing all of humanity as one, and also to the path...


The Bijak is one of the earliest of the major texts in modern Hindi. The term Bijak is derived from Bija, meaning a document containing sacred texts. In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit term bīja (Jp. ...


Sections of Bijak

  1. Ramaini
  2. Shabda
  3. Gyan-chautisa
  4. Vipramatisi
  5. Kahara
  6. Basant
  7. Chachar
  8. Beli
  9. Birahuli
  10. Hindola
  11. Sakhi

Commentary

The main comentary on the Bijak is by Mahatma Puran Saheb. The published text is based on the manuscript preserved at the Burhanpur Gaddi of the Kabirpanth.


References

  • मूलबीजकटीकासहित, Khemraj Shrikrishnadas, 1995.
  • The Bijak of Kabir, by Linda Hess (Translator), Shukdev Singh (Translator), Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

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