# Scripture 101 A primer for engineers and students new to Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji: what it is, how it is structured, its forms and voices, the script and its Unicode, transliteration, and how to answer from it. - Page: - Updated: 2026-09-27 - Verified against: `6332e94` on 2026-09-25 - From the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — Knowledge Base wiki. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is quoted verbatim, cited by Ang, and never altered. --- > **Explanation, not scripture — scholar review pending.** These pages explain the > scripture to engineers and students. Every quoted line is verbatim from the pinned database and > cited by Ang; everything else is explanation, written by engineers and awaiting a Granthi's > review. Where this page and the scripture differ, the scripture is right. You do not need to be Sikh, or to read Gurmukhi, to work on this project well. You do need to know what the text is, why it is never altered, and how its structure shows up in the data. These pages give you that, in the order a newcomer needs it. - [What Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/what-sggs-is/) — the scripture, its status, its edition, the opening line — and the one rule that governs everything here (two questions) - [The structure](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/structure/) — Angs 1–1430 as one bar: the opening banis, the thirty-one raags, the closing sections, the voices (poster 13 walkthrough · a quiz) - [Vaars, saloks and pauris](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/vaars-saloks-pauris/) — the twenty-two ballads and why their attribution needs a rule (the Vaars table from the database) - [The Bhatts and the Swaiyye](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/bhatts-and-swaiyye/) — the bards' praise-verses and how each Bhatt is attributed - [Gurmukhi and Unicode](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/gurmukhi-and-unicode/) — the script, the signs, the sihari reordering, the subjoined ya, the dandas and ੴ — what the pipeline decodes and what it never touches (a quiz) - [Transliteration and the fold](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/transliteration-and-the-fold/) — the Roman reading aid, what it is not, and the fold that makes Roman search forgiving - [The Answer Protocol for engineers](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/scripture/answer-protocol-for-engineers/) — the eight rules for answering from this knowledge base, and how the code enforces them Terms in these pages link to the [glossary](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/glossary/): hover or focus a dotted term to read its definition. The numbers come from the [pinned database](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/data/dataset-pin/); the [Ang explorer](https://docs.gurbanisoul.com/data/line-record/#explore-real-records) shows the real records behind them.