114 W. Irvine— Guru Gobind Siggli and BandaTi. [No. 3, 
of Mhd. Shall) [Also in Library R. Asiatic Society (to 
7th year of Mhd. Shah), and I. 0. Library (only to second 
year of Mhd. Shah.) There is no copy of the second vol. 
in the B. M.] See also Elliot, VIII, 17. 
27. Wdrid. —Mirat-i-Waridat, by Mhd. Shafih Warid, (up to 1147 
H.). B. M. 6579. See also Elliot, VIII, 21. 
28. Rustam ‘All .—Tarlkh-i-Hindi, by Rustam ‘All, Shahabadi 
(1149. H.). B. M., Or., 1628. See also Elliot, VIII, 40. 
29. Yahya Khan. —Tazkiratu-l-Muluk, by Yahya Khan. Mir 
Munshi, (1119 H.). I. 0. Lib., 1149 (Etlie No. 409). 
30. Khushdl Cand. —Nadiru-z-Zamani (after 1161 H.). B. M. Addi¬ 
tional, 24,027. See also Elliot, VIII, 70. 
31. Tarlkh-i-Muhammadu by Mlrza Muhammad, Barisi (author 
of No. 23), (c. 1163 H.). B. M., Or., 1824, and my copy. 
32. Mu l 2 inu-d-din , Butd Shah. —Tarikh-i-Panjab (composed 1264 
H, 1847-48 A. D.). My copy, [also in B. M.] 
Bahadur Shah (1707-1712) 
Guru Gobind Siygh ( 1675-1708). 
We come now to our more particular subject, the life and doings of 
Guru Gobind, and the events which followed on his death. Gobind, 
the son of the ninth Guru, Tegh Bahadur, was, we are told, 1 born at 
Patna in Bihar, during his father’s temporary exile from the Panjab, 
and at his father’s death was fifteen years of age. Adopting the usual 
chronology, the death of Tegh Bahadur having taken place in 1675, the 
birth of Gobind must be placed in 1660 A. D. s We are told that he 
remained in obscurity for twenty years. About 1695, then, when he was 
some thirty-five years of age, he took the field against constituted 
1 Sakhi Book, 2, 169. 
2 J. D. Cunningham, 81, says he was horn in Poll, 1718 S. (November 1661); 
Mu‘mu-d-dln, Buta Shah, on the authority of one Shankar Jydtishi, has Sunday, 
Magh 13th, 1718 S. (January or February 1662). Again, in the “ Sakhee Book,” 
37, it is given as a prophecy that Gobind would die at the age of forty-three years. 
Assuming, as we may safely do, that such a prophecy was made after the event, 
a belief is raised that Gobind may have been born in 1665 A. D., his death having 
taken place in 1708. This would in a great measure dispose of the discrepancy in 
Dr. Trumpp’s chronology ( Adi-granth , introduction, lxxxviii and lxxxix). 
