... Chānākiā Rājnītī Darbar Anandpur joti Sarabloh Granth sovereignty digvijaya Guru Angad Guru Nanak wilāyat Bhai Gurdas Bhalla Bhai Nand Lal Goya Adi Granth Ādi Granth gur bilās Shāh nāmah goddess Dharmashastras Sodhi Bhangani Battle of dharam yuddh Fateh Shah Rajputs Bhagats Bhaktas...

... unclear in regard to these two well-known features of the Panj Piare story. Drawing upon eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sikh texts of the gur-bilas and rahit-nama genres, among others, this chapter examines the reasons for why the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, may have stopped his selection...

...The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Louis E. Fenech, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532843.003.0004. This chapter examines the Panj Piare narrative story in two separate texts, one from the middle of the eighteenth century, the Gur-bilas...

... creation. Adi Granth Akal Purakh bāṇī Chhibbar Kesar Singh Five Ks Gobind Singh Guru Khalsa Miri piri mīrī pīrī Nand Lal “Goya” Bhai Persian Rahit namas rahit namas Dasam Granth Gur bilas gur bilās Gurbilas gur bilas gurbilas Gur Sobhā Srī Hukam namas hukam nāmās Mahimā Prakāś Banda Bahadar...

... of these, the place where the Guru had written a number of his famous compositions, ⁶ and the town in which the tenth Master had selected the Panj Piare and founded the Khalsa, the martial order so lovingly lauded in the later works of the gur-bilās authors especially Sainapati's...

... Sikhs of the period. It ends by examining the origin story of the Five Beloved in early-nineteenth-century Sikh texts such as Gur-panth Prakāś, Siṅgh Sāgar, and the Sūraj Prakāś. Delhi Shahjahanabad gur bilās Hans Surjit Koer Singh Kuir Singh Mahimā...

... of all Sikh examples of the gur-bilās genre” by Fenech; according to McLeod the text “vigorously affirms the distinctive nature of the Khalsa identity and the claim that this was the identity which Guru Gobind Singh intended his followers to adopt.” ⁵³ The work must...