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MADHO SINGHANA is a village 15 km south of Sirsa in Haryana. Guru Gobind Singh after leaving Sirsa towards the South made his first halt here. As the village was totally populated by Muslims, no memorial shrine existed until a lone Nihang Singh established a gurdwara during the 1970\'s along
DAL SINGAR, lit. ornament or embellishment (singar) of the army (dal), was the name of one of Guru Gobind Singh`s warhorses.According to Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Pratap Suraj Granth, one Kapura Jatt, "master of several villages in the jungle," (the reference probably is to Chaudhari Kapura Bairar of Kot
CHANDU, BHAI, a Chaujhar Khatri, received initiation at the hands of Guru Arjan. His name is included among the devotees in Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 19. See SAIN DAS, BHAI
DAYA KAUR, MATA, mother of Guru Angad Dev, was born and brought up at Matte di Sarai, a village now called Sarai Nanga, 15 km northeast of Muktsar in present day Faridkot district of the Punjab. Two other names given her by chroniclers are Sabhrai and Ramo. See PHERU
MADU, BHAI, a carpenter. His name has been included by Bhai Gurdas in his Varan, XI. 18. The name occurs in the roster of prominent Sikhs of the time of Guru Hargobind.
SADDU and his brother Maddu were rebeck players in attendance on Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) at Anandpur. They performed kirtan for the Guru.
SUJANA, BHAI, a warrior, was the devoted Sikh of Guru Hargobind. He fought with great valour in the battle of Amritsar against Mukhlis Khan in AD 1629.
WAZIRKHAN (d. 1634) is the name popularly given by Sikh chroniclers to Hakim `Alim udDin, son of Shaikh `Abd ulLatif of Chiniot, a town now in Jhang district of Pakistan Punjab. Trained as a physician, he rose in favour with Emperor Shah Jahan, who created him a ma.nsa.bdar of
CHETO, or Chetu, was one of the masands, i.e. vicars and to the collectors, found guilty of misappropriating devotees` offerings and punished by Guru Gobind Singh, who finally abolished the system.
GAJJAN, BHAI, an Uppal Khatri, named among Guru Nanak\'s Sikhs in Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 14.
MAIMUN KHAN, commander of a troop of 100 Afghan soldiers in the service of Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708), fought valiantly against Said Khan who in 1703 attacked Anandpur with a strong Mughal force.
SADHARAN, BHAI, a devoted Sikh of the time of Guru Nanak, was a resident of Pakkhoke, near Dera Baba Nanak. According to Bhai Santokh Singh, Sri Gur Pratap Suraj Granth, in serving the Guru, Sadharan was next only to Guru Angad. He waited on Guru Nanak during the latter`s
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