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2 tie age of 25 set dut fot Amritsar‘to’ receiv the Pdhal or Sikh baptism,
3 Jit met with an accident which preven | him from effecting his object.
4 e, however, assumed the character of a ee eee end is known to
5 have kept his head unshaven, and to have Pre. ed ae religion of Nanak
6 in’ the villages adjoining Kidli abd Sukerq/®* While promulgating the
7 precepts of the Guru, ard: assuming the paca ae ae a saint, er er
8 shrewd to neglect his own interésts, for hg S008 became possessed oF ha
9 the lands in Sukerchak. He did not keepasf°P, ike his father, but reading
10 the holy Granth and telling’ his beads we ies a scocapeycus ae
11 though accident hall prevented him from fornm’2?VY embracing the religion o
12 Nanak himself, he enjoined on his son, B
13 initiated into ee ee ard a visiting A’
14 dying injunction to his son was that he shoul eg!
15 bécome a Sikh, and, with this his last advice ¢° bim, he died in 1679. :
16 Buddha was only nine years of age when his| father died. He remembered
17 his father’s dying advice, and,’on attaining. the|?5° of discretion, which was
18 about the year (3692, he set owt for Amritsa" are naucon city of the Sikhs,
19 with séveral of his new friénds, and was there, wth his companions, initiated
20 dha, the necessity of being
21 ritsar for that purpose. His
22 d read the holy Granth and
23 into the Péhdal of the Guru. Buddhd was, ¢2erefore, the first man of the |.
24 family who adopted the Sikh religion. He |'”a8, however, not ai man of
25 pescedil disposition, as his father and gra dfather had: been, but was
26 courageous, enterprising and: sagacious, He|4ssociated himself with the
27 plundering gangs of Sikhs aud Sansis, and accompanied them in their
28 predatory excursions, which, however, were co ned to carrying away herds
29 of ¢attle from distant districts of the sou(?- The daring adventures
30 performed by Buddha Singh, and the succes Which attended his exploits,
31 soon won for him the reputation of being the poldet and the most resolute
32 of the Sikh freebooters in the country: He b jilt a large house for himself
33 at Sukerchak, which he made his head-quart?!s; and: where he was res-
34 pected by the people, who gave him the title of Choudhri, or headman of
35 their village. The cattle which'he carried aw?)) he either appropriated to
36 himself, or sold near Amritsar and Lahore. He thus became possessed of
37 wealth, and was looked upon as a man of some 1™portance.
38 ile was a piebald, and was as
39 The mare on which Buddha Singh: used to rid® © ;
40 famous'in the country as its rider. People called this mare Desi; hence the
41 nickname Desi given to Buddhé Singh, It is) did he swam across the
42 Jhelum, the Ravi and Chinab fifty times on this /™4Te- He was a brave and
43 courageous man, and is said to have received;|during his lifetime, twenty
44 sword cuta and nine matchlock wounds, without k's Physical strength failing
45 him. He was good humoured, ready witted, and merciful to the oppressed.
46 An anecdote is related of his returning a poor y idow all her cattle, which
47 he had seized in ignorance of her helpless conflition, without even letting
48 the woman know his name. He died of apoplexY 12 1716. His wife, over-
49 whelmed with grief at his death, ran a sword through her heart, The
50 bodies of the husband and wife were burnt tog°ther. They left two sons,
51 Nodh Singh, and Chanda Singh, from the latte? of whom the Sindhian-
52 waél& branch of the family, related to the Ma arajé on the mother’s side,
53 sprang. : ,
54 P hecordinie ty Qs tase prevailing at the time,Whea Nodh Singh lived,
55 cattle-liftiag was considered mean and less profitable, while the business
56 of a Dhérwt, or highway robber, was looked ug°2 28 an honourable and
57 lucrative profession. Having abandoned the {°™mer occupation, Nodh
58 Singh adopted the latter, and was soon enabled ¢° 2™ass a large fortune by
59 his marauding expeditions He became a notor°us highway robber, and
60 He becomes a reh-
61 gious fanatic.
62 His death, 1679
63 His son Buddha
64 He becomes a Sikh,
65 92
66 He becomes a notori-
67 ous freebooter
68 His adventures.
69 His death, 1716
70 Ongin of the
71 Sindmanwala family.
72 Nodh Singh, the son
73 of Buddha Singh
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