ABSTRACT
The Gurpratāp Sūraj Granth (1843), also known as Sūraj Prakāsh, is the largest Sikh text written by a single author. This historical narrative of the ten Sikh Gurus is elegantly written in Brajbhasha poetic form by the author Santokh Singh and this text received great fame since its creation. Nearly a hundred years later, in the 1920s, Bhai Vir Singh tackled the 60,000-verse text in an effort to publish the text within a critical apparatus which consisted of a lengthy introduction, footnotes, and in the padched or separated word format. The critical apparatus publication helped to safeguard the text from attack while shaping the younger audience's interaction with the stories. This lengthy task would be Bhai Vir Singh's longest enduring project, lasting over a decade and this chapter explores the details of this project, its drives, and how they manifest through his 14-volume publication of the Sūraj Prakāsh.
