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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
56 161J1-6-4.
Har Kishan succeeds, 1661.
CHAP. Ill
Har Rai left two sons, Ram Rai, about fifteen, and Har Kishan, about six years of age; but the elder was the offspring of a handmaiden, and not of a wife of equal degree, and Har Rai is further said to have declared the younger his successor. The disputes between the partisans of the two brothers ran high, and the decision was at last referred to the emperor. Aurangzeb may have been willing to allow the Sikhs to choose their own Guru, as some accounts have it, but the more cherished tradition relates that, being struck with the child's instant recognition of the empress among a number of ladies similarly arrayed, he declared the
Har Kishan to be indisputable, and he was accordingly recognized as head of the Sikhs: but before the infant apostle could leave Delhi, he was attacked with small-pox, and died, in 1664, at that place.^
right of
Dies 1664.
Tegh Bahadur succeeds as ninth Guru, 1664.
Ram Rai d.sputes his claims.
When Har Kishan was about to expire, he is stated to have signified that his successor would be found in the village of Bakala, near Goindwal, on the Beas river. In this village there were many of Har Gobind's relatives, and his son, Tegh Bahadur, after many wanderings and a long sojourn at Patna, on the Ganges, had taken up his residence at the same place. Rai continued to assert his claims, but he never formed a large party, and Tegh Bahadur was generally acknowledged as the leader of the Sikhs. The son of Har Gobind was rejoiced, but he said he was unworthy to wear his father's sword, and in a short time his supremacy and his life were both endangered by the machiRai, and perhaps by his own suspicious nations of proceedings.- He was summoned to Delhi as a pre-
Ram
Ram
they have a st'han or dera, or place under the walls of the (Cf. Wilson, As. Res., xvii. 236.) The name, Another follower of or designation, means simply the pure. Har Rai was a Khattri trader, named Fattu, who got the title, or adopted the name of Bhai P'hiru, and who, according to the belief of some people, became the real founder of the
citadel of Lahore.
Udasis. 1
Cf.
Malcolm, Sketch, p.
38,
and Forster, Travels, i.
299.
One native account places Har Kishan's death in a. d. 1666, but 1664 seems the preferable date.
His birth took place in a. d.
1656. - Cf., generally, Malcolm, Sketch, p. 38; Forster, Travels, 299; and Browne's India Tracts, ii. 3, 4. Tegh Bahadur's refusal to wear the sword of his. father is given, however, on the authority of manuscript native accounts, which likewise furnish a. story, showing the particular act which led to his recognition follower of the sect, named Makhan Sah (or Shah), as Guru. who was passing through Bakala, wished to make an offering to the Guru of his faith, but he was perplexed by the number of claimants. His offering was to be 525 rupees in all, but the amount was known to him alone, and he silently resolved to i.
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56 161J1-6-4.
Har Kishan succeeds, 1661.
CHAP. Ill
Har Rai left two sons, Ram Rai, about fifteen, and Har Kishan, about six years of age; but the elder was the offspring of a handmaiden, and not of a wife of equal degree, and Har Rai is further said to have declared the younger his successor. The disputes between the partisans of the two brothers ran high, and the decision was at last referred to the emperor. Aurangzeb may have been willing to allow the Sikhs to choose their own Guru, as some accounts have it, but the more cherished tradition relates that, being struck with the child's instant recognition of the empress among a number of ladies similarly arrayed, he declared the
Har Kishan to be indisputable, and he was accordingly recognized as head of the Sikhs: but before the infant apostle could leave Delhi, he was attacked with small-pox, and died, in 1664, at that place.^
right of
Dies 1664.
Tegh Bahadur succeeds as ninth Guru, 1664.
Ram Rai d.sputes his claims.
When Har Kishan was about to expire, he is stated to have signified that his successor would be found in the village of Bakala, near Goindwal, on the Beas river. In this village there were many of Har Gobind's relatives, and his son, Tegh Bahadur, after many wanderings and a long sojourn at Patna, on the Ganges, had taken up his residence at the same place. Rai continued to assert his claims, but he never formed a large party, and Tegh Bahadur was generally acknowledged as the leader of the Sikhs. The son of Har Gobind was rejoiced, but he said he was unworthy to wear his father's sword, and in a short time his supremacy and his life were both endangered by the machiRai, and perhaps by his own suspicious nations of proceedings.- He was summoned to Delhi as a pre-
Ram
Ram
they have a st'han or dera, or place under the walls of the (Cf. Wilson, As. Res., xvii. 236.) The name, Another follower of or designation, means simply the pure. Har Rai was a Khattri trader, named Fattu, who got the title, or adopted the name of Bhai P'hiru, and who, according to the belief of some people, became the real founder of the
citadel of Lahore.
Udasis. 1
Cf.
Malcolm, Sketch, p.
38,
and Forster, Travels, i.
299.
One native account places Har Kishan's death in a. d. 1666, but 1664 seems the preferable date.
His birth took place in a. d.
1656. - Cf., generally, Malcolm, Sketch, p. 38; Forster, Travels, 299; and Browne's India Tracts, ii. 3, 4. Tegh Bahadur's refusal to wear the sword of his. father is given, however, on the authority of manuscript native accounts, which likewise furnish a. story, showing the particular act which led to his recognition follower of the sect, named Makhan Sah (or Shah), as Guru. who was passing through Bakala, wished to make an offering to the Guru of his faith, but he was perplexed by the number of claimants. His offering was to be 525 rupees in all, but the amount was known to him alone, and he silently resolved to i.
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