Tempo:
SIKH GURUS; HAR GOBIND
CHAP. Ill
51
pass unquestioned into heaven.^ He had a stable of eight hundred horses; three hundred mounted followers were constantly in attendance upon him, and a guard of sixty matchlock-men secured the safety of his person, had he ever feared or thought of assassina-
16O6-45.
The impulse which he gave to the Sikhs was ^^^ ^°^such as to separate them a long way from all Hindu ^^^*^ ^^f ^th sects, and after the time of Har Gobind the 'disciples' Jkh" from^ tion.-
were in little danger of relapsing into the limited merit Hindu dissenters. or utility of monks and mendicants.^ Har Gobind became a follower of the Emperor Har Gobind Jahangir, and to the end of his life his conduct partook ^^^'^ ^^^^^ as
much of the military adventurer as of the enthu- ^'^^ '^^^' He accompanied the- imperial camp to jahang^;^
siastic zealot.
,"!!
Kashmir, and- he is at one time represented as in holy colloquy with the religious guide of the Mughal, and at another as involved in difficulties with the emperor about retaining for himself that money which he should have disbursed to his troops. He had, too, a multitude of followers, and his passion for the chase, and fancied independence as a teacher of men, may have led him to offend against the sylvan laws of the court. The emperor was displeased, the fine imposed on Arjun had never been paid, and Har Gobind was placed as a pri- is imprisoner on scanty food in the fort of Gwalior. But the soned, faithful Sikhs continued to revere the mysterious virtues or the real merits of their leader. They flocked to Gwalior, and bowed themselves before the walls which restrained their persecuted Guru, till at last the prince, moved, perhaps, as much by superstition as by ^^'^ ^^' pity, released him from confinement.^
On the death of Jahangir in 1628, Har Gobind con- ^^^^^^^ tinued in the employ of the Muhammadan Government, dies 1628, and Har but he appears soon to have been led into a course of Gobind enarmed resistance to the imperial officers in the Punjab, gages ina A disciple brought some valuable horses from Turke- petty warstan; they were seized, as was said, for the emperor, fare. 1
^
The Dabistan, ii. 284, 286. See Appendix IX.
^ Cf. the Dabistan, ii. 273, 298, 299. But the journey to
2
274,
arrd
The Dabistan, ii. 277. Forster,
Travels,
i.
Kashmir, and the controversy with Muhammadan saints or Mullas, are given on the authority :of the native chronicles. Muhsin Fani represents Har Gobind to have been imprisoned for twelve years, and Forster attributes his release to the intervention of a Muhammadan leader, iwho had originally induced him to submit to the emperor.
The Emperor Jahangir, in his Memoirs, gives more than of his credulity and superstitious reverence for
lone instance
reputed saints and magicians. ip.
129, &c.,
See particularly his Memoirs,
where his visit to a worker of wonders is narrated.
CHAP. Ill
51
pass unquestioned into heaven.^ He had a stable of eight hundred horses; three hundred mounted followers were constantly in attendance upon him, and a guard of sixty matchlock-men secured the safety of his person, had he ever feared or thought of assassina-
16O6-45.
The impulse which he gave to the Sikhs was ^^^ ^°^such as to separate them a long way from all Hindu ^^^*^ ^^f ^th sects, and after the time of Har Gobind the 'disciples' Jkh" from^ tion.-
were in little danger of relapsing into the limited merit Hindu dissenters. or utility of monks and mendicants.^ Har Gobind became a follower of the Emperor Har Gobind Jahangir, and to the end of his life his conduct partook ^^^'^ ^^^^^ as
much of the military adventurer as of the enthu- ^'^^ '^^^' He accompanied the- imperial camp to jahang^;^
siastic zealot.
,"!!
Kashmir, and- he is at one time represented as in holy colloquy with the religious guide of the Mughal, and at another as involved in difficulties with the emperor about retaining for himself that money which he should have disbursed to his troops. He had, too, a multitude of followers, and his passion for the chase, and fancied independence as a teacher of men, may have led him to offend against the sylvan laws of the court. The emperor was displeased, the fine imposed on Arjun had never been paid, and Har Gobind was placed as a pri- is imprisoner on scanty food in the fort of Gwalior. But the soned, faithful Sikhs continued to revere the mysterious virtues or the real merits of their leader. They flocked to Gwalior, and bowed themselves before the walls which restrained their persecuted Guru, till at last the prince, moved, perhaps, as much by superstition as by ^^'^ ^^' pity, released him from confinement.^
On the death of Jahangir in 1628, Har Gobind con- ^^^^^^^ tinued in the employ of the Muhammadan Government, dies 1628, and Har but he appears soon to have been led into a course of Gobind enarmed resistance to the imperial officers in the Punjab, gages ina A disciple brought some valuable horses from Turke- petty warstan; they were seized, as was said, for the emperor, fare. 1
^
The Dabistan, ii. 284, 286. See Appendix IX.
^ Cf. the Dabistan, ii. 273, 298, 299. But the journey to
2
274,
arrd
The Dabistan, ii. 277. Forster,
Travels,
i.
Kashmir, and the controversy with Muhammadan saints or Mullas, are given on the authority :of the native chronicles. Muhsin Fani represents Har Gobind to have been imprisoned for twelve years, and Forster attributes his release to the intervention of a Muhammadan leader, iwho had originally induced him to submit to the emperor.
The Emperor Jahangir, in his Memoirs, gives more than of his credulity and superstitious reverence for
lone instance
reputed saints and magicians. ip.
129, &c.,
See particularly his Memoirs,
where his visit to a worker of wonders is narrated.
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