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 to be made for them. The sixth guru added the tunes of 9 out of 22 Vars. Seventh and eighth guru did not have writings of their own added to the holy scripture; however, the ninth guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, did. The tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh, included writings of his father Guru Tegh Bahadur in the Guru Granth Sahib, and included 1 salokh in mahala 9 Ang 1429. In 1704 at Damdama Sahib, during a one-year respite from the heavy fighting with Aurangzeb which the Khalsa was engaged in at the time, Guru Gobind Singh and Bhai Mani Singh