Guru Gobind Singh Saheb (1666-1708) Guru Gobind was only nine years of age when he was called upon to undertake the onerous responsbilities of Guruship in those times of tribulation and stress. Having passed his childhood at Patna, he had picked up eastern Hindi and Sanskrit, and now he not only improved his knowledge in these languages but also learnt Persian and Gurmukhi characters. For some time,he retired to the Nahan State in the Himalayas in a place called Paonta and read much of the literature that had been composed before in Sanskrit and Braj. He learnt to write poietry. He now not only translated the whole gamut of heroic stories as found in the Ramayana,the Mahabharata and Puranas, to instil the virtues of heroism and chivalry in his people, but also employed 52 poets to undertake a similar task. In this litrature, much of which has been lost and only some of which is preserved in his Book, the name of Dasam Granth..
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