Charitropakhyan

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Charitropakhyan is a large collection of didactic tales and moral narratives found within the Sikh scripture Dasam Granth, traditionally attributed to Guru Gobind Singh.

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instanceOf collection of tales
didactic literature
section of Dasam Granth
associatedWith Akal Ustat
Bachittar Natak
Zafarnama
attributedTo Guru Gobind Singh
centralTheme consequences of vice
ethics
morality
proper conduct
containsDepictionsOf deception
human behavior
lust
vice
virtue
didacticMethod use of exempla (illustrative stories)
disputedAspect authorship
canonical status in Sikh practice
genre didactic tale
moral narrative
nīti literature
hasPart dialogues
moral stories
tales
influencedBy Indic narrative traditions
Puranic storytelling conventions
language Apabhramsha
Braj Bhasha
Punjabi
meter various Indic poetic meters
narrativeFrame dialogue between a king and his minister
partOf Dasam Granth
positionInDasamGranth later section of Dasam Granth
purpose didactic teaching
moral instruction
warning against moral failings
religiousCommunityReception subject of debate within Sikh community
religiousFunction ethical reflection
guidance for rulers and householders
religiousGenre Sikh scripture literature
religiousTradition Sikhism
scholarlyTopic Sikh textual studies
South Asian narrative literature
gender representation in Sikh texts
script Gurmukhi
textualForm verse
textualStatus part of traditional Dasam Granth corpus

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Dasam Granth contains Charitropakhyan