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
Guru Granth Sahib in 1708, Baba Deep Singh and Bhai Mani Singh prepared many copies of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib for distribution. The text consists of 1,430 "angs" (pages) and 6,000 "śabads" (line compositions), which are poetically rendered and set to a rhythmic ancient north Indian classical form of music. The bulk of the scripture is divided into sixty "rāags", with each Granth rāga subdivided according to length and author. The hymns in the scripture are arranged primarily by the "rāgas" in which they are read. The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhī script, in various languages, including Lahnda (Western