Baba Gajjan Singh Tarna Dal

Shield-Words: Baba Gajjan Singh's Teeka of the Brahm Kavach and Bhagauti Astotar in the Tarna Dal Tradition

This course studies the work of Baba Gajjan Singh, a scholar in the Tarna Dal Nihang lineage, who wrote a teeka (a word-by-word explanation) of two short devotional compositions: the Brahm Kavach and the Bhagauti Astotar. Both belong to the protective and praise-poetry tradition connected to the Dasam Granth and…