WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The entire Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script, which was standardized by Guru Angad in the 16th century. According to Sikh tradition and the Mahman Prakash, an early Sikh manuscript, Guru Angad Dev had taught and spread Gurmukhi at the suggestion of Guru Nanak Dev who invented the Gurmukhi script.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Sikh tradition, Gurmukhi (literally, “from the mouth of the Guru”) was invented in the mid-16th century by Angad, the second Sikh Guru (head of the Sikh religion), in order to correct certain inadequacies in the Lahnda script so that sacred literature might be accurately recorded.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gurmukhi is the phonetic script in which the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikhism’s sacred scripture, is written. The words of hymns and poetic verses of the Guru Granth are known as Gurbani, meaning Guru’s word.