Kirtan Sohila
The Sikh night prayer, also recited at cremation.
Kirtan Sohila is short and is recited before sleep. It is also the prayer said at a cremation, which gives the same words two settings a long way apart: the end of an ordinary day, and the end of a life.
That pairing is deliberate in Sikh teaching, where sleep and death are spoken of in the same terms.
Why the words are not here
No usable public-domain English, for the same reason as the other Sikh texts here.
Every text on this site names the edition it came from and was checked against it twice. A prayer nobody can cite an edition for does not get printed here, however well known it is. The verification record lists what was held back and why, and how rights are established explains the test.
When people look for this
The moments this prayer is associated with. Each page carries cited guidance on how different traditions meet that moment.
Where it belongs
This page describes a prayer and, where we hold one, prints a named edition of it. It does not tell you whether to say it, or when. That judgment belongs to someone credentialed in the tradition, and nobody has signed anything here.