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| Combat | ATK 9 DEF 9 SPR 10 SPD 8 INT 8 |
Founding Community | Sikh
On Vaisakhi 1699 at Anandpur, Guru Gobind Singh drew his sword and asked which Sikh would give his life for the Guru. Five men stood — Daya Ram (a Khatri from Lahore), Dharam Das (a Jat farmer from Delhi), Mokham Chand (a washerman from Dwarka), Himmat Rai (a water-carrier from Jagannath Puri), and Sahib Chand (a barber from Bidar). Five castes, the lowest included. Gobind Singh led each into a tent; his sword emerged red each time; five times the crowd thought they were watching an execution. He then lifted the tent: all five were alive, dressed in saffron. He initiated them with amrit (sugar-water stirred with a double-edged sword), then asked them to initiate him in return — the Guru bowing before those who had bowed before him. Every Khalsa initiation since has been performed by the Panj Pyare, re-enacted in every gurdwara.
Parallels: The twelve apostles (the founding inner circle of another tradition); the first Muslims who faced persecution in Mecca; the original Bodhisattva vow-takers — but the Panj Pyare deliberately crossed caste lines in a way none of these parallels did, and their act was institutionalized into the tradition’s rite of initiation. See also: Guru Gobind Singh, [Mata Sahib Devan](#mata-sahib-devan----mother-of-the-khalsa)
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