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The Sikh Religion

Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

By Guru Nānak

By Guru Arjan

Translated by Max Arthur Macauliffe

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909, Six volumes

First written 16th–17th centuries

In the public domain

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Macauliffe’s six volumes of lives of the Sikh Gurus and the bhagats, with translations of many of their hymns, including the Japjī, prepared with the help of Sikh scholars. For decades the main English source for the Sikh scriptures.

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Guru Nānak and Guru Arjan. The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors. Translated by Max Arthur Macauliffe. Six volumes. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909.

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@misc{sources-sikh-religion-macauliffe,
  title = {{The Sikh Religion}},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  note = {Source. Last modified November 7, 2026},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/sikh-religion-macauliffe}
}

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