The Gurbani Viewer is a free software application that we use in our gurdwara to display shabads from the Guru Granth Sahib.  The application is used to search and display text from the Guru Granth Sahib.  The text is projected for the sangat members to follow along with the Raagis.  Each line is displayed  in Gurmukhi, phonetic English and meaning in English.  The Guru Granth Sahib text and translation is available courtesy of Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa, MD and Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind, MD.

Click here to see a sample screenshot of the Gurbani Viewer

Steps for installing the application:

1. You need Java version 1.5 (JRE 5.0) or newer to run the Gurbani Viewer application. If you do not have java installed, you can download and install it from Sun Microsystems
2. Download the download.zip file and unzip it to a local directory.

   If you have a previous version of the Gurbani Viewer, you can download the smaller viewer_update.zip file instead of download.zip file. This file does not have SGGS.txt file which is not changed during upgrades. Unzip the viewer_update.zip file to your existing directory.

   Click Here to see what's new in this release.

   Source Code is available here. Source Code is not required to run the application.

Steps for running the application:
To start the application, double click the ssgviewer.cmd file. This file be in the directory where you unzipped the download.zip file.
You can now search and display text from the Guru Granth Sahib.  Alternatively you can directly go to a specific page in the file.
Please see the documentation for other features of the application. The documentation provides helpful tips on searching the text file, how to buffer the shabad start lines and how to run the application in single user mode so that the user can use the projector screen to browse the Guru Granth Sahib at home.  The documentation also provides a list of all the keyboard shortcuts available in the application.

Suggestions or bugs? Send an email to gagantoor@gmail.com

The Gurbani Viewer program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.