As of today, the manuscript section in Government Museum comprises 50 rare manuscripts, of which 22 in Gurmukhi have been gifted by Dr Nirankari. Today, Dr Nirankari recalled the manner in which precious manuscripts were created, collected from the world over and then disseminated by the keepers of Sikh faith. "The fragments of Sikh wisdom were compiled by the gurus in 1604 AD. That was when they instructed their followers to transcribe the Adi Granth for use by Sikh scholars. Even when Sikhs assumed political power, Misl leaders were duty bound to install copies of the Adi Granth in gurdwaras and also provide them to soldiers who went to fight. Each such copy is a great work of art, and bears beautiful illustrations."

For her part, Dr Madanjit Kaur, a Sikh historian, has donated 1600 rare books to the museum. The collection is priceless both in terms of historical richness and content - it features discourses made in 1700 AD, accounts of European travellers, dictionaries in languages like the Persian and the French. The rarest of all is the "hukamnana" of 1701 by Guru Gobind Singh in which He instructed the Sikhs not to follow the "masands" as they had strayed from the path of pure service to the faith. Her collection also features 310 coins and specimen of "Darshani rumalaas."

All this and much more has been documented in the catalogue which has three sections - one on the Adi Granth, also called Kartarpuri Bir; another one on miscellaneous manuscripts related to the life of Guru Nanak Dev, and yet another one on Damdami Bir, which contains the verses of Guru Tegh Bahadur to the Adi Granth.