Bhai Bhagvant Singh Hariji (1892-1968), a lover of game, horticulturist and scholar, was born on 15 February 1892 to the erudition of his celebrated father, Bhai Kahn Singh, of Nabha, the creator of the immortal Gurushabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh. Unobtrusively, and in his characteristically gentle and self abnegating manner, Bhagvant Singh carried the family learning into the second generation. His home provided the best education then available to a young man, though he did attend formally the Khalsa College at Amritsar, then the premier educational institution of the Sikhs. On 9 November 1915, he married Bibi Harnam Kaur, daughter of Jivan Singh, editor of the Khalsa Sevak of Amritsar, who was herself a poet of repute and who appreciated and sustained her husband's scholarly interests. Equa