Guru Amar Das integral part of Sikhism. He is also remembered as the innovator who began the collection of hymns now known as "Goindwal Pothi" or "Mohan Pothi", the precursor to what became the "Adi Granth" – the first edition of Sikh scripture – under the fifth Sikh Master, which finally emerged as the "Guru Granth Sahib" under the tenth Sikh Master. The nearly 900 hymns composed by Guru Amar Das constitute the third largest part, or about 15%, of the "Guru Granth Sahib". Guru Amar Das Guru Amar Das (; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574) was the third of the
Guru Granth Sahib gurus. Numerous holy men, aside from the Sikh gurus, are collectively referred to as "Bhagats" or "devotees." In 1708 Guru Gobind Singh conferred the title of "Guru of the Sikhs" upon the Adi Granth. The event was recorded in a "Bhatt Vahi" (a bard's scroll) by an eyewitness, Narbud Singh, who was a bard at the Rajput rulers' court associated with gurus. A variety of other documents also attest to this proclamation by the tenth guru. Thus, despite some aberrations, Sikhs since then have accepted Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred scripture, as their eternal-living guru, as the embodiment of the