The legends of the Panjâb

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DHANNA, THE BHAGAT.
As srNG BY MiBAN Bakhsh and GHtrNNA, Peofessional Singers
OF THE DaEBAB SaHIB OB GolDEN TeMPLE AT AmRITSAR,
BEFOBE THE AuTHOB IN 188Q.
[Though Dhannfi is acknowledged to have been one of the Bhagata, and his
story,
as here told, is very popular and widely known, yet it appears to be
almost hopeless to try and clear up the obscurity in which his historical
existence is involved. He was a JAt cultivator and a follower of Rim^nand,
and as a few verses in the Adi Qranth are attributed to him, he must
have flourished in the 15th Century.]
TEXT. .
Dhanne da Shabad.
TeTc.
Dhanne da Har se laga neh :
Dhanne da nische laga neh
Par-brahm, puranj abnashi,
Har se laga neh.
5 Dhanna jangal gawwan chare.
Brahman* niklio ae
Nhae, dhoe, piija visthare,
Baitha dhy§,n lagae.
Dhanna kahnda, " Sun, Bhal Dada ;
10 Sa nfln vi bhagti lae."
Dhanne da Har se laga neh :
I.
11,
etc,
Brahman kahnda, " Sun, Bhai Dhannia
Hun di ghari guzar.
Tain nun Thakur chang^ dewan,
* The Blaagat Tarlocli or Trilocliaii. His history is very obscure
but lie is supposed to have been a fellow countryman and contemporaxy
of the famous Namdev, the Bhagat and Marafcha poet, who was bom
at Pandharpiir in the Dakban and flourished in the time of Sikandar
SbabLodt (1488-1512).