Gauri is the biggest of the rag sections and the most internally various. Its hymn headings do not simply say Gauri; they name a whole family of related measures, Gauri Guareri, Gauri Dakhani, Gauri Cheti, Gauri Bairagan, Gauri Purbi, Gauri Majh and others, each a recognised shading of the same underlying form, with the second word specifying which. No other section carries that many named variants.
Its contents include the composition of Guru Arjan on inner peace that is among the most widely read texts in the Sikh tradition, twenty-four sections of eight verses each with a preceding couplet, structured with unusual regularity for this volume. It also holds an acrostic built on the letters of the alphabet, and Kabir has a substantial presence.
Size is worth reading as evidence. The Granth does not distribute its material evenly across the measures, and Gauri's bulk records a real preference: this family of forms was heavily used by the Gurus and by the bhagats whose work they collected. A section of this length also complicates any simple statement about how the volume is arranged, because within Gauri the ordering has to do more work, sorting by variant, then by Guru, then by form, then by length, and a reader navigating it is using four levels of organisation at once.