17. Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji as A Storehouse of Language & Verse

Mostly, ancient scriptures are in the form of stories and prose. A few of them that are in poetry form stand no parallel to the verse of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji and cannot even be compared to it. The language of Gurbani in Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is not only the contemporary language of the saints of that time, but it also stores immense vocabulary and words of regional languages such as Brij, Hindi, Bhatt Bhasha, Lehndi, Punjabi, Rekhta(mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish), Arabic, Persian and so many other languages. The great Guru's and Bhagats gave their divine teachings to the masses in their own languages that they could understand, without any discrimination and thus joined them to God. Satguru Ji used popular and local dialects and set them to musical melodies of folk songs and tunes as a base and wrote Gurbani in these tunes so that people were blessed with knowledge about true religion in an accessible format. Popular musical measures and verses used in Gurbani are :