No critical edition of the writings current under the name of Kabīr has yet been published, though collections of his sayings (chiefly the Sākhīs) are constantly appearing from Indian presses. The reader is referred, for a summary account of his life and doctrine, to H. H. Wilson’s Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus (Works, i. 68 sqq.). Dr E. Trumpp’s edition of the Ādi Granth (Introduction, pp. xcvii. sqq.) may also be consulted. Recent publications dealing with the subject are the Rev. G. H. Westcott’s Kabīr and the Kabīr Panth (Cawnpore, 1908), and Mr. M. A. Macauliffe’s The Sikh Religion (Oxford, 1909), vi. 122-316.
(C. J. L.)
[1] See article [Hindostani Literature].
[2] An exactly similar tale is told of Nānak, the first Guru of the Sikhs, who died in 1538.
[3] This and the following passages in quotation marks are from Professor Wilson’s translation of 100 Sākhīs, pp. 83-90.
[4] Benares; Hara, a name of Śiva.
[5] I.e. Mecca.
[6] “The Bountiful,” one of the Korānic names of God (Allah).
