290 SKETCH OF THE SIKHS. 



<?* whether Hindu Rdjds or Miihammedan lords, became like dust in his 

 f presence. The mountains, hearing of him^ were struck with terror ; the 

 «' whole world was affrighted, and the people fled from their habitations* 

 " 111 shorts such was his fame, that they were all thrown into consterna- 

 ^' tion, and began to say, — Besides thee, Sat Giiril! there is no dispeller 

 ^^ of danger.—Having seized and displayed his sword, no person could 

 5'^ resist his mighto" 



^ The same:authGr, in a subsequent passage, gives a very characleristic 

 account of that spirit of hostility which the religion of Gu'ru' G6vini> 

 breathed against the Muhammedans ; and of the manner in which it treated 

 those sacred writings^ upon which most of the established usages of 

 iff/^iz/s are grounded^ 



, *' By the command of the eternal^ the great Gurii disseminated the 

 ^[ true knowledge^ Full of strength and courage, he successfully esta- 

 " blished the Khdlsa (or state.) Thus, ^at once founding the se6l of Sinh^ 

 " he struck the whole world with awe ; overturning temples and sacred 

 *t places, tombs J and mosques, he levelled them all with the plain \ rejedl- 

 ^^ /ing the Vedas^ the Piirdfis^ the six Sdstras and the Koran; he abolish- 

 ". ed theery oi JSTamdz (Muhammedan prayer) and slew the Sultans; re- 

 " ducing the Mirs and Pirs (the lords and -priests of the Miiliammedans ) 

 *^ to silence, he overturned all their seels; the Moullahs (professors) and 

 " the Kdzis (judges) were confounded, and found no benefit from their 

 «* studies. The Brdhmens, the Pandits y and the Jotlshis (or astrologers) 

 " had acquired a relish for worldly things; they worshipped stones and 

 " Jtemples, and forgot the supreme. Thus these two se6ls, the Muhamme^ 

 ^\..dan and Hindu, remained involved in delusion and ignorance, when 

 «« the third se6l of the Khdlsa originated in purity. When, at the order 



