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| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 95 DEF 90 SPR 99 SPD 85 INT 96 |
| Rank | Tenth and Final Human Guru / Founder of the Khalsa |
| Domain | Khalsa initiation; military reform; *Dasam Granth*; the closing of the line of human Gurus |
| Alignment | Holy / Sikh |
| Weakness | Lost all four sons -- two killed in battle, two bricked alive into a wall by the Mughal governor of Sirhind for refusing to convert. Survived assassination attempts but died from a delayed assassin's wound in 1708 |
| Key Act | Founded the Khalsa at Anandpur on Vaisakhi 1699 with the initiation of the Panj Pyare. Instituted the Five Ks. Gave every Khalsa man the surname Singh and every Khalsa woman the surname Kaur. Composed the *Dasam Granth*, including the *Jaap Sahib* and *Zafarnama* (his defiant Persian letter to Aurangzeb). Before his death in 1708, declared that there would be no eleventh human Guru -- the Guru Granth Sahib would be the eternal Guru in perpetuity |
| Source | *Dasam Granth*; *Bachittar Natak*; Sikh tradition |
“Sava lakh se ek ladaun, tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun.” — “When one Sikh fights against 125,000, then I shall be called Gobind Singh.” — attributed to the tenth Guru
The architect of the Sikh community as it exists today. The decision to close the line of human Gurus and vest the Guru-ship in the scripture and the community is one of the great structural decisions in religious history — a deliberate refusal of personality cult, of dynastic succession, of any further human mediation between the disciple and the Word.
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