आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(“School of Manners”) An outside
source for the religious life of the times,
and gives the earliest detailed description of the Sikhs, as well as many other
contemporary religious communities.
The text traditionally is ascribed to
Muhsin Fani. Fani was a Persian who
traveled through much of northern
India, apparently motivated only by his
intense curiosity to encounter the
country’s different forms of religious
life. The text is also notable for the
seeming absence of authorial bias—
Fani reports that he had simply translated
what his friends and informants had
told him, and the Dabistan’s tone seems
to maintain this claim. The text has
been translated by David Shea and
Anthony Troyer as The Dabistan, or
School of Manners, 1843.