230 SKETCH OF THE SIKHS. 



^' fame extends over three worlds, for the fame of the warrior lives for 



'^' ever." 



Though Govind shewed an invincible spirit, and performed prodigies 

 .of valour, having killed, with his own hand, NahakKhaV, .and wounded 

 Khwa'jeh Muhammed, the other leader of the empjsror's troops, it was 

 impossible to contend longer against such superior numbers ; and he at 

 last, taking advantage of a dark night, fled from Chamkdur, covering his 

 face, according to the Sikh author, from shame at 'his own disgrace. 



This sketclj of the Jife of GovmD is compiled fjrom his pwn ,works, and 

 those of other Sikh writers, such as Nand and B'hai Guru' J)as ; and thp 

 events recorded, allowing for the colouring with which such .narratives 

 are written in the east, appear to be correct : the leading fa(51:s are almost 

 all established by the evidence of contemporary Muhammedan writers, tp 

 whom we must trust for the remainder of his history; as the authorities 

 _ we haye followed? end at the period of his flight from Chamho'uf. , 



Most accounts agree that Gu'ru' Govind, after his flight, w^as, from a 

 sense of his misfortunes, and the loss of his children, bereft of his reason, 

 and wandered about for a considerable time, in the most deplorable con- 

 -dition.. One account /states, that he died in the Punjab; another, that he 

 Vieritto Patna,yi\ieYQ he ended his days; a third, taken from a Sikhk^ 

 ,.thprity,^, asserts that Gu'ru' .Govind, after remaining some time 'm 'the 

 'Jjai'M-JiiJigle, to which he -had fled, returned without molestation to his 



^ ' '* Mr. Foster has followed this authority in his account of the SsM nation ; and I am 

 inclined to believe that the part of it which relates to Gu'b'u Go vind's dying at Naded^ in tlie 

 jyelihin, of a wound received froui a Patau, is correct; as it is written on the last page of a 

 copy of the Adi-Gra}7t''h, in my possession, with several other facts relative to the dates dfih^ 

 feirlhs and deaths of the principal high priests of the SiA-^5, - 



