He returned it to Dhirmal. Guru Gobind Singh dictated the entire Granth to Bhai Mani Singh and incorporated the hymns of Guru Tegh Bahadur, in 1706 at Damdama Sahib. The Guru Granth Sahib contains 5894 hymns. The 937 hymns of fifteen Bhagats and eleven Bhatts whose compositions tallied with the gospel of Sikhism were also included. Here the Hindu, the Muslim, the Brahmin, and the untouchable, meet on an equal footing.
Music forms the basis of the classification of the hymns.
They follow a definite metrical system. The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script and contains 1430 pages. It is a work of divine inspiration. It is both metaphysical and ethical reality and imagination, mysticism and philosophy. The Guru Granth Sahib is of one Song, one Idea and one Life.