Advocate Bikram Singh Sidhu, a Social Worker in Ludhiana salutes to the linguistic martyrdom of Mai Bhago Ji and of Chali Muktas
Mai Bhago also called Mata Bhag Kaur was a Sikh lady who led 40 Sikh soldiers against the Mughals in 1705. She killed a few enemy soldiers on the battlefield and is considered as a saint warrior by the Sikh Nation for more than 300 years. She was the sole survivor of the battle of Khidrana, for example Battle of Muktsar (battled on 29 December 1705); She was a daughter of Bhai Mallo Shah. She was also the fabulous daughter of Bhai Piro Shah, who was the more younger sibling of Bhai Langah, a Dhillon Jatt Chaudhary of 84 villages, who had gotten a Sikh during the time of Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru. She was the lone sister of four siblings.
Conceived at her genealogical village of Jhabal Kalan in present-day Amritsar region of Punjab, in the Majha locale, she was married to Nidhan Singh Warraich of Patti; She was a resolute Sikh by birth and upbringing. She was troubled to hear in 1705 that some of the Sikhs of her village neighborhood, who had gone to Anandpur Sahib to battle for Guru Gobind Singh Ji, had abandoned him under adverse conditions.
Finding these 40 men (presently called the "Challi Mukta") who had abandoned the 10th Guru she convinced them to find the Guru. She figured out how to persuade them to apologize for leaving Anandpur sahib while it had been under attack; further she them to look for the Guru's permission to be reinstated as Sikhs.
She set off alongside them and some other Sikhs to discover the Guru, who had been pursued after by Mughal powers since leaving Anandpur. They found him in the territory around Malva. Mai Bhago and the men she was leading stopped near the dhab (pool) of Khidrana similarly as a supreme armed force was going to attack the Guru.
The 40 sikhs who had approached the Guru for consent to leave Anandpur, had been allowed to leave, however the Guru had requested that them first leave the Khalsa and dis-avowing him as their Guru. Presently destiny allowed them to make up for themselves, quit worrying about that despite the fact that they showed up as Sikhs, they were no longer Khalsa. ( But the Guru realized that they were not powerless In Sikhi, they would return, and Guru (Father), would bless them.
So in spite of the way that they definitely confronted unavoidable passing, the forty (chali) men alongside Mai Bhago, waded head-first into the Muslim soldiers (around 10,000 soldiers) and inflicted such an excess of harm that the Muslims were at long last compelled to surrender their attack and retreat as darkness tumbled to lick their injuries in the close by woods.
Mai Bhag kaur, was an extraordinary Sikh women, with a Keski tied around her head, with the Khalsa Uniform, with her Kirpan battling, she was the first woman throughout the entire history of Punjab, to battle On battlefield.
The Guru had watched the fight from a nearby hill and with destructive precision had poured down a flurry of arrows on the Mughal warriors during the attack. Seeing little movement among the party that had gone to his guide he rode to the battlefield.
He found that gathering was made out of the forty men who he had requested to sign a paper dis-avowing him as their Guru, every one of them had died on of their injuries aside from one, Mahan Singh Brar, who was mortally injured, had just an opportunity to gaze toward Guru Gobind Singh as he pulled him upstanding with his arms maneuvering him into his lap. It is said that the note the men had marked slipped out of the perishing Sikh's garments and was picked by the Guru who revealed to Mahan Singh that everything was pardoned and that all had all died as martyrs as the Guru destroyed their letter of resignation.
At the point when somebody dies battling for their belief or religion, the individual is known as a Shaheed. The Chali Muktis were also Shaheeds.
Sri Guru Gobind Singh blessed the forty men as the forty (chali) freed ones (mukte) and that is still how the men are known today; the "Forty Liberated Ones", the Chali Mukte. He took into his consideration Mata Bhago who had likewise endured injury in the fight.
Subsequent to recovery she thereafter stayed on with Guru Gobind Singh Ji serving as one of his bodyguards, in champion clothing. She was one of numerous Sikhs who went with the Guru on his journey to Nanded. After the death of Guru Gobind Singh at Nanded in 1708, she retired down at Jinvara, 11 km from Bidar in Karnataka where, submerged in reflection, she lived to achieve a mature age.
Her hut in Jinvara has now been changed over into Gurudwara Tap Asthan Mai Bhago. At Nanded, as well, a hall inside the compound of Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib denoting the site of her home is known as Bunga Mai Bhago.


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