With the infinite Kirpa of Sache Paatshaah, this project was undertaken as a humble Seva for the Panth. The goal of SikhLibrary is to provide a universal, comprehensive, and easily accessible digital source for Sikh research.

By centralizing scriptures, historical texts, scholarly commentaries, and linguistic archives into a standardized, machine-readable format, we aim to empower the next generation of Sikh scholars, AI researchers, and developers. If Sache Paatshaah wishes it, this dataset will serve as the foundational backend source for sikharchive.net—a global, living, centralized database dedicated to preserving open-source Khajana (treasure) of the Sikh Panth, making our profound literature, heritage, philosophy, and ethics transparently accessible to anyone in the world.

🚀 What's New in V2.0 (The Grand Literary Expansion)

This update marks the largest single expansion to the repository by far, transforming it from a core scriptural database into a massive library of individual author archives.

To process this unprecedented volume of data, we built an advanced pipeline using OpenRouter to manage high-throughput Optical Character Recognition (OCR) parsing and intelligent text extraction, utilizing state-of-the-art models including Gemini 1.5 Flash-Lite and Gemma 4 31B. This allowed us to successfully convert thousands of heavily formatted, scanned historical texts into clean, perfectly structured UTF-8 text files and structured JSON text-pages.

📊 Dataset Statistics & Directory Structure

The repository has grown exponentially to capture individual works across over 50 prominent Sikh scholars, historians, theologians, and classical texts.

📁 Core Directory Structure

Folder / Path	Content Description
`Gurbani_Core`	Foundation scriptures including Sri Guru Granth Sahib (112 Languages), Dasam Granth, and Sarbloh Granth.
`Steeks`	Exegesis and word-by-word meanings (Teekas), including the ShabadOS database and classical commentaries.
`Granths`	Major historical works such as the Mahan Kosh, Suraj Parkash, and Panth Prakash.
`[Author Names]` (New)	Dedicated directories for dozens of foundational authors and scholars (e.g., Bhai Vir Singh, Prof. Sahib Singh, Giani Dit Singh, Sant Seva Singh, Dr. Ganda Singh, and historical Granth authors).

🙏 Acknowledgements & Gratitude

This project is a culmination of decades of work by various organizations and individuals dedicated to digital preservation. We offer our deepest gratitude to:

Sache Paatshaah: For providing the strength, resources, and vision to perform this seva.
ShabadOS & BaniDB: For their incredible work in providing structured Gurbani data and indexing that serves as a cornerstone for modern Sikh apps.
Sikhi.IO: For their vast archive of digitized texts and translations that form the bulk of the research corpus.
Panthic Organizations & Digitizers: To all organizations, past and present, who have labored to scan, type, and verify these historical records.

🤝 Future Collaboration & Contributions

This is a living dataset. We believe that Sikh knowledge should be open and accessible to all.

Continuous Updates: This V2 update is just the beginning. We will continue to run processing pipelines to add more .txt and JSON data as new manuscripts are localized and verified.
Call for Collaboration: We invite other Panthic organizations, scholars, and developers to contribute raw scans or data to this repository. Whether it is a new translation, an unmapped historical teeka, or a linguistic corpus, your contribution directly fuels the preservation efforts at sikharchive.net.

If you have data you wish to contribute or if you find errors in the current texts, please open an Issue or a Discussion on this repository.

📜 Usage & License

This dataset is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

What you may do

Download and share the files in their original, unmodified form.
Use the dataset for personal study, academic research, and non-commercial purposes.

What you may not do

Modify, alter, translate, or otherwise adapt any of the text files in this dataset.
Use this dataset or any portion of it for commercial purposes.
Redistribute any modified or derived version of these files.

Attribution requirement

Any use of this dataset must credit the following:

SikhLibrary Dataset (jsdosanj/SikhLibrary) on Hugging Face
Contributing sources: ShabadOS, BaniDB, Sikhi.IO
Project maintainer: Bhai Jasvant Singh Panchhi (ਪੰਛੀ)

🛠️ How to Load (Python)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the entire archive
dataset = load_dataset("jsdosanj/SikhLibrary")

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🪯 SikhLibrary: A Universal Comprehensive Research Corpus

🛡️ Mission & Vision