Shabad is the term used by Sikhs to refer to a hymn or paragraph or sections of the Holy Textthat appears in their several Holy Books. The main holy scripture of the Sikhs is the Sri Guru Granth Sahib also shortened to SGGS. The first Shabad in the SGGS is the Mool Mantar. The text used for the Shabad is in the holy book is Gurmukhi. Below is the Shabad in Englishtransliteration and translation.

Contents  [hide] 1 Mool Mantar 2 Structure of Shabads 3 Index of the Holy Granth 4 See also 5 External Links

Mool Mantar

"The Mul Mantra, the Root Mantra, is the only cure for the mind; I have installed faith in God in my mind" - SGGS page 675

Original Gurmukhi Text:

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ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥

Ik­ oaʼnkār saṯ nām karṯā purakẖ nirbẖa­o nirvair akāl mūraṯ ajūnī saibẖaʼn gur parsāḏ.

ik-oNkaar
                                    One Sole Creator

    sat naam                    kartaa purakh            nirbha-o                 nirvair
Truth is Your Name        Creator  Perfect Keeper       Fearless              Without Enmity 

    akaal moorat         ajoonee        SaibhaN           gur parsaad
The primary Entity     Never born   Self-perpetuating  With the Guru’s grace

jap          aad sach                   jugaad sach           hai bhee sach
Recite!  True in the beginning     True Through the Ages   True even now and 

   naanak          hosee bhee sach 
    Nanak  -      Will always be True.

Structure of Shabads

Main article: Structure of SGGS

All Shabads or hymns contained in Guru Granth Sahib are classified in different Ragas except the first composition called Japji Sahib and the Swayyas, Saloks and Ragmala at the end of the holy Granth. The Shabads or hymns in Guru Granth Sahib can be classified as by the number of verses per hymn as follows:

No. of verses	Name of format	Total present in SGGS
2	dupadas	608
3	tripade	73
4	chaupadas	1,255
5	panchpadas	80
6	chhepedas	11 verses
8	Ashtpadian	311
16	sohilas	62

Index of the Holy Granth

Main article: Index of Guru Granth Sahib

The Shabads or hymns are also classified into chapters named as musical Raags. There is a non-Raag section at the beginning and end of theGuru Granth Sahib. Although according to the index of Ragas in Ragmala, the total number of Ragas and Raginis is 84, the Guru has used only 31 for the compositions in the Guru Granth. So the Granth is arranged firstly according to the Raga, secondly, according to the nature or metre of the poem, thirdly authorship, and fourthly the clef . The ordinary edition of Adi Granth Sahib contains 1430 pages as under :

• 1. Japji Sahib - Page 1 to 7.
• 2. Musical hymns - Page 8 to 1351.
• 3. Salok Sanskriti -Page 1352 to 1359.
• 4. Gatha -Page 1359 to 1361.
• 5. Funhe - Page l36l to 1362.
• 6. Chaubole - Page 1363 to 1364.
• 7. Saloks of Kabir and Farid - Page 1364 to 1384.
• 8. Swayyas of the Gurus and the Bhattas - Page 1384 to 1408.
• 9. Saloks of the Gurus - Page 1409 to 1428.

10. Rag Mala, index of musical measures - Page 1429 to 1430.