About this reader
Text and English meanings come from the supplied Gurbani Researcher 2 database. The repeated Mool Mantra meaning of Nirvair is displayed as “without enemies or enmity,” as requested; the original English remains in the archive. English transliteration uses the Japji gutka’s aa, ee, oo, ai and au conventions, with reviewed opening spellings. Pronunciation key: a as in cut; aa as in car; i as in sit; ee as in sheet; u as in put; oo as in shoot; e as in say; ai as in at; au as in sort. Underlined consonants follow the gutka’s distinctions. Other lines are generated reading aids and have not all been manually checked for recitation. Gurmukhi remains authoritative. The original Gurbani spelling and nasal marks are preserved.
Search keys are separate from display text. “Consonants only” is a derived search mode, not a verified replica of the original application's fuzzy search. The 960 section entries are the original categories, not verified individual shabad boundaries. This reader works offline. No audio recording is included.
Punjabi meanings: primarily Prof. Sahib Singh, Sri Guru Granth Darpan; Bhai Manmohan Singh where a matching Darpan entry is unavailable, digitized by Shabad OS. Meanings are attached only through exact Gurbani or exact source-English alignment; original Gurbani Researcher text is unchanged. 1023 lines remain without an attached Punjabi meaning and are clearly marked. This is not a fuzzy replacement of the source text.
First-letter search accepts Gurmukhi initials with or without spaces. “Anywhere” finds a consecutive sequence of word initials within a line; “from line beginning” matches only its beginning. Matras and nasal marks are ignored in this search key. Independent vowels are grouped by their carrier: ਅ/ਆ/ਐ/ਔ, ੲ/ਇ/ਈ/ਏ, and ੳ/ਉ/ਊ/ਓ. Displayed Gurbani is unchanged.