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 together Akbar, the Mughal Emperor, received a report that the Adi Granth contained passages vilifying Islam. Therefore, while travelling north, he stopped en route and asked to inspect it. Baba Buddha and Bhai Gurdas brought him a copy of the Adi Granth as it existed then. After choosing three random passages to be read, Akbar decided that this report had been false. In 1604, Adi Granth was completed and installed at the Harmandir Sahib, with Baba Buddha as the first "granthi", or reader. Since communities of Sikh disciples were scattered all over northern India, copies of the holy scripture needed