BILAVAL KI VAR, by Guru Ram Das, is one of his eight vars in a corpus of twenty-two included in the Guru Granth Sahib. It occurs in Raga Bilaval, and consists of thirteen pauris or stanzas, each comprising five lines, with the exception of pauri 10 which is of six lines. To the pauris which are of Guru Ram Das`s composition, slokas were added by Guru Arjan at the time of the compilation of the Holy Book. In its present form, each paun, except pauri 7 which has three slokas prefixed to it, is preceded by two slokas. Of these twenty-seven slokas, two are of the composition of Guru Nanak, one of Guru Ram Das and the remaining of Guru Amar Das.
GUJARI KI VAR, a composition in the form of folk balladry or a vdr, by Guru Arjan included in the Guru Granth Sahib under Gujari rdga, one of the thirty-one musical measures into which hymns in the Scripture are cast. The poem comprises twenty-one pauns or stanzas, with two slokas preceding each. The pauns as well as the slokas are of the composition of Guru Arjan. Whereas all the pauns, except the 20th which comprises five lines, are of eight lines each, the slokas except those preceding paun 1 and 20 and the first of the two slokas added to paun 2, are of two lines each.
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