Guru Arjan for having composed and circulated them. The concern and the possibility of wrong propaganda, immoral teachings and inauthentic "Gurbani" led Guru Arjan to initiate a major effort to collect, study, approve and compile a written official scripture, and this he called "Adi Granth", the first edition of the Sikh scripture by 1604. The composition of both Prithi Chand and his followers have been preserved in the Mina texts of Sikhism, while the mainstream and larger Sikh tradition adopted the "Guru Granth Sahib" scripture that ultimately emerged from the initiative of Guru Arjan. According to the Sikh tradition, Guru Arjan compiled
Sikh scriptures Sikh scriptures The principal Sikh scripture is the "Adi Granth" (First Scripture), more commonly called the "Guru Granth Sahib". The Sikhs do not regard this as their "holy book" but as their perpetual and current "guru", guide or master. It was called "Adi Granth" until Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and final guru in human form, conferred on it the title of the guru in 1708, after which it was called "Sri Guru Granth Sahib", or "Guru Granth Sahib" for short. The "Granth" has 1430 pages and is divided into 39 chapters. All copies are exactly alike. The Sikhs are