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Sikh names often have the following format: First name – Religious name – Family name. [1] [2] Sikh first names serve as personal names and are selected through the Naam Karan ceremony, where a random page of the Guru Granth Sahib is opened by a granthi (Sikh preist) and the first letter of the first prayer on the opened page is used as the basis for the first name as an initial.
He became the Sikh leader at age 14, on 3 March 1644, after the death of his grandfather and the sixth Sikh leader Guru Hargobind.He guided the Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his death at age 31. Guru Har Krishan was the eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus. At the age of five, he became the youngest Guru in Sikhism on 7 October 1661.
Media in category "Family members of the Sikh gurus" This category contains only the following file. SikhGurusFamilyTree9.jpg 2,339 × 1,654; 214 KB
Sikh chieftain Ajit Singh Sandhawalia, who had served as Prime Minister first for Ranjit Singh then for Sher Singh's brother Kharak Singh and Karak Singh's son Nau Nihal, assassinated on 15 September 1843 Sher Singh, Maharaja of Sikh Empire, his son and heir apparent Pratap Singh and Sher Singh's wazir (prime minister) Dhian Singh. Sher Singh ...
19th century depiction of a Sikh woman (a Kaur) from a Haveli. Kaur (Punjabi: ਕੌਰ Punjabi pronunciation: [] / کور []; lit. ' crown prince[ss] ' or ' spiritual prince[ss] '), [1] sometimes spelled as Kour, is a surname or a part of a personal name primarily used by the Sikh and some Hindu women of the Punjab region. [2]
Sandhu or Sindhu (Punjabi: ਸੰਧੂ (Gurmukhi); سندھو (Shahmukhi)) is the second largest clan of Jats in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. [2] [3] The Sandhus played an important role in the Sikh history. [4]
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According to the legend, some of the descendants migrated to Sanaudh where the clan chieftain married the daughter of the king and had a son named Sodhi Rai whose descendants ruled over the Sanaudh region now known as east and west Punjab and Haryana and some parts of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.