This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... X.-GURU GOBIND SINGH. CHAPTER I. Childhood. While Guru Teg Bahadur was away in Assam in company with Bishen Singh, Ruler of Jodhpur, enjoying his forced leisure, though never losing sight of his great mission and scattering the seeds of reformation wherever the mental soil appeared fit to receive it, his wife, mother Gujri, stationed at Patna, gave birth to a child who was desti ned to work a momentous, enduring change in the rel1 gious, social and political conditions which then obtained in the Punjab--to illustrate thereby the old truth that the resuscitation and renovation of a fallen race is possible only when self-sacrifices of the highest type are forthcoming. This child was born in the Poh of1723, Bikram era, in the last watch of Saturday night. The Guru, before he set out on his journey to Assam, had left instructions that the new-comer, in case it was a boy, should be called Gobind or Rai Gobind, and, accordingly, his wishes in this respect were carried out. The birth of Gobind, as that of the founder of Sikhism, was attended with miracles, and the biographer lingers over each in all the sincerity of-enthusiasm which true, profound faith inspires. But the modern reader may do without them, for if he is sensible, he will not fail to see sufficient mirncle in the human and actual achievements of Gobind. Born of healthy parents, Gobind inherited a sound, robust constitution, and his growth and development was all that could be desired. When he was of age to leave his mother's arms and to mix and play with little children, he began to display traits of character in keeping with his surroundings and with the traditions of his house. He would divide his companions into two parties, constituting them as opposing hosts and make them meet in battle. There ...