One sheet surveys the whole undertaking: the scripture in its hundred and eleven tongues, the history, the library, the sound, and the machinery built so none of it can be lost.
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Abstract
Sikhi.io is a free and open archive of Sikh scripture, history, and heritage: no advertisements, no paywalls, no gatekeepers.1 It was founded and built self-funded, and is sustained now in part by dasvand from a number of individuals and organisations. At its centre stands Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji: all 1,430 angs, readable verse by verse in 111 languages, alongside the Dasam Granth, the Sarbloh Granth, the daily Hukamnama, a 26-language Mahan Kosh dictionary, and more than a thousand digitised volumes. Around the scripture the archive builds outward: search tuned to Gurbani, the lives of the ten Gurus, a library of primary sources, kirtan, film, discourse, and an immutable edition sealed to the permaweb.2 This sheet is its floor plan: 49 rooms in 9 wings, drawn so the magnitude of the undertaking can be seen at once.
Counts sourced from the archive's own project record; verified 17 Aug 2026.
The Master Plan
The Build
The Hundred and Eleven Tongues
Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is readable in 111 complete languages. Each carries all 1,430 angs, verse by verse (none is an abridgement or a selection of the better-known passages), so any ang can be read in any of them. This section covers the translation work itself; §06 covers how it is indexed and found.
Language counts read from the archive's own single-source language registry; coverage audit from its project record, July 2026.
One Door Per Language
Each of the 111 languages has its own indexable landing page at sikhi.io/<language>, written in that language, declaring the other 110 as its equivalent and linking to a single hub at /universal. The purpose is discovery: without a page in a given language, a search made in that language returns nothing, and the translation behind it goes unread. This is a separate effort from the translation work in §05.
Page, alternate and banner counts taken directly from the archive's own SEO data files and its dedicated language sitemap; banner presence verified file by file: all 111 present.
Sikh University
Not a room in this building, but the one next door: Sikhi University is a free, open, scholar-attributed curriculum, a full academic ladder from a first question to graduate-level seminar, taught from the same primary sources this archive draws on. It stands at the end of the line traced in §04.
Like the archive, it began self-funded by its builders and is now sustained in part by dasvand from a number of individuals and organisations. Neither carries advertising, paywalls, or any fee to a reader or a student.
A separate, independently-run project, linked from Wing D, room D·03. Counts and subject list sourced from sikhiuni.com directly; verified 17 Aug 2026.
The Mahan Kosh
Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha's Mahan Kosh, the encyclopaedic dictionary of the Sikh tradition (four volumes, first published 1930), runs to 2,926 printed pages. Those pages were read entry by entry and rebuilt as a searchable reference of 64,218 headwords in 26 languages at sikhi.io/dictionary. The record below sets out how much was recovered, by what method, and where the recovery stopped.
Set, order and display names copied verbatim from the archive's own language registry. FTS marks the two languages held in the searchable database and left indexable; the other twenty-four are served from object storage, fully readable and deliberately not indexed.
Recovery figures read from the archive's own project record, at the state of its 13 Aug 2026 entry. Dataset figures, licence and file counts read from the published repository itself: its manifest, its licence file and its own directory listing. Verified 19 Aug 2026.
The Faridkot Wala Teeka
The Faridkot Wala Teeka is the nineteenth-century line-by-line commentary on Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, prepared under the patronage of the Faridkot state, for a century the standard exegesis, and for most of that century readable only in Gurmukhi. It stands here at 4,300 pages in seven languages: 30,100 page-entries, each one addressable, each one sealed to the permaweb.
The verse, restored above the gloss.
The translated editions print a romanised opening and its explanation, but not the line of Gurbani itself, so a reader on any of the six non-Gurmukhi tabs never saw the verse being commented on. It is now set above the gloss in Gurmukhi, drawn from a table of canonical lines. It is never reconstructed backwards from the romanisation: ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ and ਸਤ ਨਾਮ romanise alike, and a guess there would print the wrong Gurbani above the right commentary.
Counts read from the archive's own lookup registry; published in all seven languages 10 Feb 2026, see §04.
The Argument
Against forgetting.
Manuscripts burn. Servers lapse. Links rot. A tradition carried five centuries by memory and ink now asks for a medium that cannot decay. The archive answers with redundancy: mirrored on the Internet Archive, sealed to the Arweave permaweb, its code held in the open. The Word, made unerasable.
Without a price.
Sikhs live across every continent, and most of the world reads no Gurmukhi. The Guru's word should not wait behind a subscription. Every ang, every translation, every volume here is free. Self-funded at the outset, sustained now in part by dasvand from a number of individuals and organisations, never by advertising.
Built to outlast.
This is not a website; it is infrastructure. An open-source, multilingual, machine-searchable canon, maintained in public and designed to serve scholars and seekers for generations. What print did for the Granth in the nineteenth century, the permaweb does now.
The complete Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, committed to the permaweb: beyond outage, beyond deletion, beyond us.
Colophon & Call
The archive is open source and community-built. Translators, historians, developers, designers, readers: the plan above is standing. Help it grow. Seva scales.
In honour of the 350th year of the sacrifice of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji. Dedicated to Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.