Giani Harbans Singh

Reading Gurbani by Its Endings: Giani Harbans Singh's Simple Grammar

This course introduces the approach to Gurbani grammar set out in Giani Harbans Singh's ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਸਰਲ ਵਿਆਕਰਣ (Gurbani Saral Viyakaran, 'Simple Gurbani Grammar'). The central idea is that the small vowel-signs and word-endings of Gurbani are not decoration: they carry meaning. A word can change its sense depending on…