Scripture 101

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 isthe scripture, its status, its edition, the opening line — and the one rule that governs everything here (two questions)
• The structureAngs 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 pauristhe twenty-two ballads and why their attribution needs a rule (the Vaars table from the database)
• The Bhatts and the Swaiyyethe bards’ praise-verses and how each Bhatt is attributed
• Gurmukhi and Unicodethe 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 foldthe Roman reading aid, what it is not, and the fold that makes Roman search forgiving
• The Answer Protocol for engineersthe eight rules for answering from this knowledge base, and how the code enforces them

Terms in these pages link to the glossary: hover or focus a dotted term to read its definition. The numbers come from the pinned database; the Ang explorer shows the real records behind them.