KUNVARESH

KUNVARESH, one of the many poets and scholars kept by Guru Gobind Singh, came from a Kashyap Brahman family of the village of Bari, near the ancient town of Kara (26°7`N, 80°22`E), in the present Fatehpur district ofUttar Pradesh. He translated into Bhakha, written in GurmukhT script, “Drona Parva” of the Mahdbhdrata at the instance of Guru Gobind Singh in 1695. Only a fragment of this work has survived. It is preserved in the private collection of the Maharaja of Patiala. A manuscript in the Sikh Reference Library, Amritsar, contained another work by Kunvaresh, Rati Rahasya Kos, a panegyric on Guru Gobind Singh.

References :

1. Padam, Piara Singh, Sri Guru Gobind Singh. Ji deDarban Ratan. Patiala, 1976
2. Vidiarathi, Devinder Singh, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Abhinandan. Amritsar, 1983
3. Sukha Singh, Gurbilas Dasvin Patshala. Lahore, 1912
4. Santokh Singh, Bhai, Sri Gur Pratdp Suraj Granth. Amritsar, 1927-33