Bhatt Gayand
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}Bhatt Gayand was a Brahmin bard in the court of Guru Arjan, whose 13 hymns are present in Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred scripture of the Sikhs.Page cxx, The Ādi-Granth, Or: The Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs, Ernst Trumpp, W.H. Allen, 1877Page 36, The Encyclopedia of Sikhism (over 1000 Entries), H. S. Singha, Hemkunt Press, 2000 Page 8, The Sikh Review, Volume 55, Issues 1-6, Sikh Cultural Centre, 2007[http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/scriptures/sri-guru-granth-sahib-and-guru-gobind-singhs-bani/bhatt-bani thesikhencyclopedia.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223064219/http://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/scriptures/sri-guru-granth-sahib-and-guru-gobind-singhs-bani/bhatt-bani |date=23 December 2015 }}: BHATT BANI
Usage of the term ''Waheguru''
The hymns to Waheguru contained in the Guru Granth Sahib were composed by Bhatt Gayand.{{Cite journal |last=Grewal |first=Dalvinder Singh |date=2011 |title=Chanting 'Waheguru' is Pure Bliss! |journal=The Sikh Review |location=Calcutta, India |publisher=Sikh Cultural Centre |volume=59 |issue=691–696 |pages=9}}{{Cite book |url={{GBurl|id=8I0NAwAAQBAJ}} |title=The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-969930-8 |editor-last1=Singh |editor-first1=Pashaura |series=Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology |location=Oxford |pages=272 |chapter=The Khalsa: Foundational Myth of the Sikh 'Nation' |oclc=874522334 |quote=Nanak conceived of God as the one and the only 'true sovereign' (Sacha Patishah) of the world; although the term Vahiguru first found in the hymns of Bhatt Gayand, the bard contemporary of Guru Arjan (the fifth Guru), is now more commonplace and used in the Sikh salutation (Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa Vahiguru ji ki Fateh). |editor-last2=Fenech |editor-first2=Louis E.}}{{Cite journal |title=Journal of Religious Studies |journal=Journal of Religious Studies |publisher=Punjabi University. Department of Religious Studies |volume=36 |pages=46 |quote=Gayand composed 13 swayyas in praise of the fourth Guru whom he believes to be incarnate of the Divine. His 'Wah - Wah' phrase is popularly recited by the Sikhs}}