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SIKHISM
CHAP. Ill
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RECAPITULATION
79
horses, asses, and even the forbidden ox, he was reduced to submit.^ Some of the Sikhs were put to death, and their heads were borne on pikes before Banda and others as they were marched to Delhi with all the signs of ignominy usual with bigots, and common among barbarous or half-civilized conquerors.hundred Sikhs were put to death daily, contending among themselves for priority of martyrdom, and on
i'^°°-i6.
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the eighth day Banda himself was arraigned before his Muhammadan noble asked the ascetic from judges. conviction, how one of his knowledge and understanding could commit crimes which would dash him into hell; but Banda answered that he had been as a mere scourge in the hands of God for the chastisement of the wicked, and that he was now receiving the meed
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own crimes against the Almighty. His son was placed upon his knees, a knife was put into his hands, and he was required to take the life of his child. He and put to did so, silent and unmoved; his own flesh was then torn ^eath at with red-hot pincers, and amid these torments he ^^^^^• expired, his dark soul, say the Muhammadans, winging its way to the regions of the damned."^ of his
The memory of Banda is not held in much esteem The views by the Sikhs; be appears to have been of a gloomy of Banda confined disposition, and he was obeyed as an energetic and and his daring leader, without being able to engage the personal sympathies of his followers. He did not perhaps not'rev^red. comprehend the general nature of Nanak's and Gobind's reforms; the spirit of sectarianism possessed him, and he endeavoured to introduce changes into the modes and practices enjoined by these teachers, which should be more in accordance with his own These unwise innovations ascetic and Hindu notions. 1 Cf. Malcolm, Sketch, pp. 79, 80; Forster, Travels, i. 306 and note; and the Siar ul Mutakharin, i. 116, 117. The ordinary accounts make the Sikh army amount to 35,000 men
(Forster says 20,000); they also detain Abdus Samad a year at Lahore before he undertook anything, and they bring down all the hill chiefs to his aid, both of which circumstances are probable enough. - Siar ul Mutakharin, i. 118, 120. Elphinstone {History, ii. 574, 575), quoting the contemporary Khafi Khan, says the
prisoners
amounted
to
The Siar ul Mutakharin relates
740.
how the old mother of Bayazid Khan killed the assassin of her by letting fall a stone on his head, as he and the other were being led through the streets of Lahore. • Malcolm (Sketch, p. 82,) who quotes the Siar ul Mutakharin. The defeat and death of Banda are placed by the Siar ul Mutakharin (History, ii. 22), and (i. 109), by Orm.e apparently by Elphinstone (History, ii. 564), in the year A. d.
son,
prisoners
1716; but Forster (Travels,
i.
306 note) has the date 1714.
CHAP. Ill
:
RECAPITULATION
79
horses, asses, and even the forbidden ox, he was reduced to submit.^ Some of the Sikhs were put to death, and their heads were borne on pikes before Banda and others as they were marched to Delhi with all the signs of ignominy usual with bigots, and common among barbarous or half-civilized conquerors.hundred Sikhs were put to death daily, contending among themselves for priority of martyrdom, and on
i'^°°-i6.
A
the eighth day Banda himself was arraigned before his Muhammadan noble asked the ascetic from judges. conviction, how one of his knowledge and understanding could commit crimes which would dash him into hell; but Banda answered that he had been as a mere scourge in the hands of God for the chastisement of the wicked, and that he was now receiving the meed
A
own crimes against the Almighty. His son was placed upon his knees, a knife was put into his hands, and he was required to take the life of his child. He and put to did so, silent and unmoved; his own flesh was then torn ^eath at with red-hot pincers, and amid these torments he ^^^^^• expired, his dark soul, say the Muhammadans, winging its way to the regions of the damned."^ of his
The memory of Banda is not held in much esteem The views by the Sikhs; be appears to have been of a gloomy of Banda confined disposition, and he was obeyed as an energetic and and his daring leader, without being able to engage the personal sympathies of his followers. He did not perhaps not'rev^red. comprehend the general nature of Nanak's and Gobind's reforms; the spirit of sectarianism possessed him, and he endeavoured to introduce changes into the modes and practices enjoined by these teachers, which should be more in accordance with his own These unwise innovations ascetic and Hindu notions. 1 Cf. Malcolm, Sketch, pp. 79, 80; Forster, Travels, i. 306 and note; and the Siar ul Mutakharin, i. 116, 117. The ordinary accounts make the Sikh army amount to 35,000 men
(Forster says 20,000); they also detain Abdus Samad a year at Lahore before he undertook anything, and they bring down all the hill chiefs to his aid, both of which circumstances are probable enough. - Siar ul Mutakharin, i. 118, 120. Elphinstone {History, ii. 574, 575), quoting the contemporary Khafi Khan, says the
prisoners
amounted
to
The Siar ul Mutakharin relates
740.
how the old mother of Bayazid Khan killed the assassin of her by letting fall a stone on his head, as he and the other were being led through the streets of Lahore. • Malcolm (Sketch, p. 82,) who quotes the Siar ul Mutakharin. The defeat and death of Banda are placed by the Siar ul Mutakharin (History, ii. 22), and (i. 109), by Orm.e apparently by Elphinstone (History, ii. 564), in the year A. d.
son,
prisoners
1716; but Forster (Travels,
i.
306 note) has the date 1714.
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