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ਜਪੁ | Jup
ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
ਸੋਹਿਲਾ | Sohilaa
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
Ashtpadiyan (235-242)
Chhant (242-249)
Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
Gauree kii Vaar (300-323)
Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
Ashtpadiyan (411-432)
Patee (432-435)
Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
Salok | Gatha | Phunahe | Chaubole | Swayiye
Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
Shaloks Sheikh Farid
Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 154775" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>by David Blackburn</p><p></p><p>Muslim, Hindu or Sikh, cricket is India's first faith – or so the cliché says. Wisden, the cricket Bible, announced earlier this week that is to launch an Indian edition.</p><p></p><p>I’m surprised that Wisden does not already have a sub-continent edition, given that money-spinning cricket innovations such as the Indian Premier League have accompanied the region’s boisterous economic expansion. You might think that Wisden is arriving at this party somewhat more than fashionably late.</p><p></p><p>Wisden and its publisher (and owner) Bloomsbury, however, exude confidence. Their press release notes, in the easy tones of a latter day Nabob, that the “local market for information on cricket in India is highly fragmented”. They plan to “unify the fragmented sections into a consolidated whole…to deliver year-round content on a range of platforms”.</p><p></p><p>Cricket coverage in India is certainly disparate. Fanatics distribute their epistles on streets, where children bat with flotsam and bowl with pebbles. Innumerable writers compete for space in innumerable newspapers, most of which have a significant online presence and mobile phone apps on the sport. Then there are the faded stars, the television commentators and the Bollywood pictures about the great game. But, there is one dominant voice in this rag-tag choir: Cricinfo.com.</p><p></p><p>Cricinfo is an internet pioneer, as strange and alluring as cricket itself. Launched in 1993 by Dr Simon King – a charismatic English academic, marooned at the University of Minnesota – it was one of the first content websites on the internet, built and serviced by volunteers from around the globe. Now, it is owned by ESPN, the sports-arm of the Disney Corporation and boasts 30 million page views a month from between 7 to 8 million unique users, most of whom apparently live in the sub-continent.</p><p></p><p>For those unacquainted with the site, it provides cricket journalism, live scorecards and hoards of opinion. And, as its unprepossessing name suggests, it also proves the adage that cricket is game governed by statistics. Millions of pages relay past match scorecards and the careers of even the most obscure player, an archive that reaches back deep into the 19th century. Submit to curiosity and wander about in this trivial sprawl. See the devotion that governs so many cricket fans, and which has served to create a sporting morality in which a player’s worth is determined by abstract numbers.</p><p></p><p>Of course, Wisden provides exactly the same service. Doubtless its famous yellow-sleeved volumes were plundered by Cricinfo’s first volunteers, unashamed to compile a trove of virtually worthless information and disseminate it freely. So, Wisden’s move is a direct challenge to ESPNCricinfo’s growing hegemony in a vital market, and there is a neat symmetry in Wisden India’s appointment of Alex Chamberlen, Cricinfo’s former head of sales, as an advisor. What appears to have begun as a cure for Simon King’s nostalgia for the English summer, has forced the most august voice in cricket to speak louder.</p><p></p><p>PS: Nike didn't make cricket bats when I was growing up in the '90s. Things are a little different now, as the advert above illustrates. YouTube is full of Nike adverts aimed at the Indian market. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7308133/wisdens-voyage-into-crickets-future.thtml" target="_blank">http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7308133/wisdens-voyage-into-crickets-future.thtml</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 154775, member: 35"] by David Blackburn Muslim, Hindu or Sikh, cricket is India's first faith – or so the cliché says. Wisden, the cricket Bible, announced earlier this week that is to launch an Indian edition. I’m surprised that Wisden does not already have a sub-continent edition, given that money-spinning cricket innovations such as the Indian Premier League have accompanied the region’s boisterous economic expansion. You might think that Wisden is arriving at this party somewhat more than fashionably late. Wisden and its publisher (and owner) Bloomsbury, however, exude confidence. Their press release notes, in the easy tones of a latter day Nabob, that the “local market for information on cricket in India is highly fragmented”. They plan to “unify the fragmented sections into a consolidated whole…to deliver year-round content on a range of platforms”. Cricket coverage in India is certainly disparate. Fanatics distribute their epistles on streets, where children bat with flotsam and bowl with pebbles. Innumerable writers compete for space in innumerable newspapers, most of which have a significant online presence and mobile phone apps on the sport. Then there are the faded stars, the television commentators and the Bollywood pictures about the great game. But, there is one dominant voice in this rag-tag choir: Cricinfo.com. Cricinfo is an internet pioneer, as strange and alluring as cricket itself. Launched in 1993 by Dr Simon King – a charismatic English academic, marooned at the University of Minnesota – it was one of the first content websites on the internet, built and serviced by volunteers from around the globe. Now, it is owned by ESPN, the sports-arm of the Disney Corporation and boasts 30 million page views a month from between 7 to 8 million unique users, most of whom apparently live in the sub-continent. For those unacquainted with the site, it provides cricket journalism, live scorecards and hoards of opinion. And, as its unprepossessing name suggests, it also proves the adage that cricket is game governed by statistics. Millions of pages relay past match scorecards and the careers of even the most obscure player, an archive that reaches back deep into the 19th century. Submit to curiosity and wander about in this trivial sprawl. See the devotion that governs so many cricket fans, and which has served to create a sporting morality in which a player’s worth is determined by abstract numbers. Of course, Wisden provides exactly the same service. Doubtless its famous yellow-sleeved volumes were plundered by Cricinfo’s first volunteers, unashamed to compile a trove of virtually worthless information and disseminate it freely. So, Wisden’s move is a direct challenge to ESPNCricinfo’s growing hegemony in a vital market, and there is a neat symmetry in Wisden India’s appointment of Alex Chamberlen, Cricinfo’s former head of sales, as an advisor. What appears to have begun as a cure for Simon King’s nostalgia for the English summer, has forced the most august voice in cricket to speak louder. PS: Nike didn't make cricket bats when I was growing up in the '90s. Things are a little different now, as the advert above illustrates. YouTube is full of Nike adverts aimed at the Indian market. [url]http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7308133/wisdens-voyage-into-crickets-future.thtml[/url] [/QUOTE]
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