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Guru Nanak founded the Sikh religion, and his vast corpus of hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs¿ sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology. Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition offers a selection of his spiritual lyrics in a beautiful new translation that highlights his pluralistic vision of the singular divine.

The Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas's beloved R¿mcaritm¿nas, presents renowned episodes from the Ramayana epic, including Ram's battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife Sita, and the god Hanuman's heroic journey to Lanka to find her.

Nandi Timmanäs Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting p¿rij¿ta tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods, to appease his wife Satyabhama. This is the first English translation of the poem, which prefigures the modern Telugu novel with its unprecedented narrative unity.