Sketch Of The Sikhs

Malcolm,lieutenant Colonel · 1812 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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2SKETCH or THE SIKHS.

3name of Chak. He, however, added much

4*to its population, and built a famous tank,

5or reservoir of ■water, which lie called Am-

6ritsar, a name signifying the ■water of ira-

7mortaUt3’, and which has become so sacred,

8that it has g^ven its name, and imparted its

9sanctity, to the town of BAmd^sphr, wliich

10has become the sacred city of the Sikh

11nation, and is now only known by the name

12of Amritsar.

13Ailer a life passed in the undisturbed

14propagation of his tenets, in explanation of

15which he' wrote several works, he died, in

16the year A. H. 1581, and of the Sami at

171638, at Amritsar, leaving two sons, Ar-

18jumnal and BUaratmaU He was succeeded

19by the former*, who has rendered himself

20* Arjunma], or Arjoo, as lie is more commonly

21called, according to Blmi Bas Btiale, ttie author

22of the Gay&n Itatn&rali, iras not initiated m the

23sacred m^steties of bts father Tins author says, that

24Arjxin, though a secular man, did not sufTer the office

25of G6rd, or pnest, to leare the Siindt tribe. " Like’a