JAGANA, BHAT, was a pious, learned Sikh of the lime of Guru Arjan. He lived in Agra. Once he, along with Bhai Nanda and Bhai Bhana Suhar, also of Agra, waited on the Guru to have some of their doubts resolved. The Guru, as says Bhai Man! Singh, Sikhdn

JATTU, BHAI, a learned Tivan Brahman, who accepted Sikh faith at the hands of Guru Arjan. The Guru taught him to have belief in Guru Nanak, who had revealed the Divine Truth to mankind. See Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI.19 JATTU, BHAI (d. 1621), a devoted Sikh of the time

JIVA, BHAI, a Sikh living near Khadur Sahib in Amritsar district of the Punjab, who used to bring daily khichan (a dish of rice mixed with lentils) and curds for Guru Angad`s I an gar or community kitchen. One evening as a severe dust storm was raging, he, according

KALAUR, 9 km east of Bassi Pathanari (30°42`N, ^^`E) in Fatehgarh Sahib district, claims a historical shrine dedicated to Guru Tegh Bahadur. A raised platform was constructed on the top of the ruined mound in the village to commemorate the visit of Guru Tegh Bahadur who made a brief

KARMO, wife of Prithi Chand (1558-1618), the eldest son of Guru Ram Das, was, like her husband, jealous of Guru Arjan, her husband`s younger brother whom Guru Ram Das had nominated as his spiritual sucessor. As Guru Arjan did not have an offspring till he was well past thirty,

KHALSA PRACHARAK VIDYALA, TARN TARAN, an institution established in 1906 by the Khalsa Diwan Majha. From its inception in 1904, the setting up of centres in the rural areas to conduct worship services and reform programmes among villagers had constituted a vital part of the DTwan`s mission. The new organizational

KIRTIA, BHAI, later Kirat Singh (d. 1705), son of Bhai Gurdas, a Sikh who had served Guru Tegh Bahadur, joined the retinue of Guru Gobind Singh as a young man. He received amrit, i.e. initiatory rites of the Khalsa, and became Kirat Sirigli. He fell a martyr in the

LAKKHA SINGH was, according to Gur Ratan Mal (Sau Sakht), one of the attendants of Guru Gobind Singh at Nanded in the south. He killed one of the two Pathans who had conspired to assassinate the Guru. The other assassin, Jamshaid Khan, who actually stabbed the Guru, had already

MACAULIFFE, MAX ARTHUR (1841-1913), English translator of the Sikh Scriptures and historian of Sikhism, was born on 10 September 1841 at Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland. He was educated at Newcastle School, Limerick, and at Springfield College and Queen\'s College, Galway. He received a broad humanistic education that allowed him

MAIA, BHAI, son of Bhai Khanu who, according to Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 15, received instruction at the hands of Guru Angad.

MANIK, BHAI, of village Maddar in present day Sheikh upura district of Pakistan, received initiation as a Sikh at the hands of Guru Amar Das. When Guru Hargobind visited this village on his way back from Kashmir in 1620, Manik served him with devotion and narrated to him the

MIHRA, BHAI, a resident of Bakala, now called Baba Bakala in Amritsar district of the Punjab, was a devoted Sikh of the time of Guru Hargobind. According to Gurbilds Chhevin Pdtshdhi, he built a new house and took avow not to live in it until the Guru had once