Sketch of the Sikhs

He immediately entered and demanded the cause of the uproar ; and when informed of the circumstances he severely chid Ca% for his conduct and The veneration which the Hindfis have for the snake is well known ; and this tradition like many others proves the attachment of the Sikivivriters to that mythology the errors of which they pretend to have wholly abandoned. [...] One author* who treats of the great reform which he made in the worship of the true God which he found degraded by the idolatry of the Hind(is and the ignorance of the Muhanimcclans relates his journey to all the different Hind6 places of pilgrimage and to Mecca the holy temple of the Mhanimedans. [...] Har GOvind was the destroyer of " armies a martial Gan (priest) a great warrior and " performed great actions." The mistake of some European writers on this subject probably originated in a confusion of verbal accounts; and the similarity of the name of Har Givind the son of Arjunmal and G6vind the last and greatest of the Sikh G iris the son of T6gh Bahidur. [...] terror and astonishment in the minds of the Muhammedan conquerors of India who saw the religious prejudices of the Hindi's which they had calculated upon as one of the pillars of their safety because they limited the great majority of the population to peaceable occupations fall before the touch of a bold and enthusiastic innovator who opened at once to men of the lowest tribe* the dazzling [...] From the defeat and death of Banda till the invasion of India by Nadir Shah a period of nearly thirty years we hear nothing of the Sikhs ; but on the occurence of that event they are stated to lave fallen upon the peaceable inhabitants of the Penjfib who sought shelter in the hills and to have plundered them of that property which they were endeavouring to secure from the rapacity of the