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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
74 1675-1708.
and
dies,
A. D. 1708, declaring his mission to be fulfilled,
and
the Khalsa to
be com-
mitted to
God. Gobind's end untimely, but labours not
CHAP, ni
assembled disciples asked in sorrow who should inspire
them with truth and lead them to victory when he was no more. Gobind bade them be of good cheer; the appointed Ten had indeed fulfilled their mission, but he was about to deliver the Khalsa to God, the neverdying. 'He who wishes to behold the Guru, let him search the Granth of Nanak. The Guru will dwell with the Khalsa; be firm and be faithful: wherever five Sikhs are gathered together there will I also be present.' ^
Gobind was killed in 1708, at Nader, on the banks of the Godavari.- He was in his forty-eighth year, and if it be thought by any that his obscure end belied the
promise of his whole
life,
it
should be remembered
that— 'The hand of man but a tardy servant of the brain, And follows, with its leaden diligence,
fruitless.
Is
The fiery steps of fancy'
;=*
the priests of the temple at Nader, represent the one assassin of the Guru to have been the grandson of the Painda Khan, slain by Har Gobind, and they do not give him any further cause of quarrel with Gobind himself. 1 Such is the usual account given of the Guru's dying injunctions; and the belief that Gobind consummated the mission or dispensation of Nanak seems to have been agreeable to the feelings of the times, while it now forms a main article of faith. The mother, and one wife of Gobind, are represented to have survived him some years; but each, when dying, declared the Guruship to rest in the general body of the Khalsa, and not in any one mortal; and hence the Sikhs do not give such a designation even to the most revered of their holy men, their highest religious title being 'Bhai', literally 'brother', but corresponding in significance with the English term 'elder'. - Gobind is stated to have been born in the month of Poh, 1718 (Sambat), which may be the end of a. d. 1661 or beginning of 1662, and all accounts agree in placing his death about the middle of 1765 (Sambat), or towards the end of A. D. 1708.
At Nader there is a large religious establishment, partly supported by the produce of landed estates, partly by voluntary contributions, and partly by sums levied annually, agreeably to the mode organized by Arjun. The principal of the establishment dispatches a person to show his requisition to the faithful, and all give according to their means. Thus the common horsemen in the employ of Bhopal give a rupee and a quarter each a year, besides offerings on occasions of pilgrimage. Ranjit Singh sent considerable sums to Nader, but the buildings commenced with the means which he provided have -not been completed.
Nader is also called Apchalanagar, and in Southern and Central India it is termed pre-eminently 'the Gurudwara', that is, 'the house of the Gurus.' i Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a dramatic poem. Act iv. scene 6.
74 1675-1708.
and
dies,
A. D. 1708, declaring his mission to be fulfilled,
and
the Khalsa to
be com-
mitted to
God. Gobind's end untimely, but labours not
CHAP, ni
assembled disciples asked in sorrow who should inspire
them with truth and lead them to victory when he was no more. Gobind bade them be of good cheer; the appointed Ten had indeed fulfilled their mission, but he was about to deliver the Khalsa to God, the neverdying. 'He who wishes to behold the Guru, let him search the Granth of Nanak. The Guru will dwell with the Khalsa; be firm and be faithful: wherever five Sikhs are gathered together there will I also be present.' ^
Gobind was killed in 1708, at Nader, on the banks of the Godavari.- He was in his forty-eighth year, and if it be thought by any that his obscure end belied the
promise of his whole
life,
it
should be remembered
that— 'The hand of man but a tardy servant of the brain, And follows, with its leaden diligence,
fruitless.
Is
The fiery steps of fancy'
;=*
the priests of the temple at Nader, represent the one assassin of the Guru to have been the grandson of the Painda Khan, slain by Har Gobind, and they do not give him any further cause of quarrel with Gobind himself. 1 Such is the usual account given of the Guru's dying injunctions; and the belief that Gobind consummated the mission or dispensation of Nanak seems to have been agreeable to the feelings of the times, while it now forms a main article of faith. The mother, and one wife of Gobind, are represented to have survived him some years; but each, when dying, declared the Guruship to rest in the general body of the Khalsa, and not in any one mortal; and hence the Sikhs do not give such a designation even to the most revered of their holy men, their highest religious title being 'Bhai', literally 'brother', but corresponding in significance with the English term 'elder'. - Gobind is stated to have been born in the month of Poh, 1718 (Sambat), which may be the end of a. d. 1661 or beginning of 1662, and all accounts agree in placing his death about the middle of 1765 (Sambat), or towards the end of A. D. 1708.
At Nader there is a large religious establishment, partly supported by the produce of landed estates, partly by voluntary contributions, and partly by sums levied annually, agreeably to the mode organized by Arjun. The principal of the establishment dispatches a person to show his requisition to the faithful, and all give according to their means. Thus the common horsemen in the employ of Bhopal give a rupee and a quarter each a year, besides offerings on occasions of pilgrimage. Ranjit Singh sent considerable sums to Nader, but the buildings commenced with the means which he provided have -not been completed.
Nader is also called Apchalanagar, and in Southern and Central India it is termed pre-eminently 'the Gurudwara', that is, 'the house of the Gurus.' i Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a dramatic poem. Act iv. scene 6.
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