Later Mughals v1.c6.s17.11

v1.c6.s17.11

Terms of some sort were made with the rajahs, after which the Guru, with two wives and forty followers, fled into the Malwa, or country south and east of the Satlaj. The Muhammadans attacked him again near the village of Ghanaula, in the Ambala district. One follower, Ude Singh, who resembled the Guru in features, placed himself in the front of the fight and fought on till he was killed, allowing Govind Singh time to escape. After plundering the Sikh camp, which was near Rupar on the Satlaj, the Muhammadans made a diligent search for the Guru, of whose escape they now heard. Govind fled into the forest, and his wives received shelter in the house of a secret adherent. Next day the Guru reached Chamkaur, a place lower down the Satlaj than Rupar.* He was then alone. The pursuit continuing, he went on with two disciples, who now joined him, and they walked southwards for fifteen miles. He halted to rest at Machiwara, a town with a ferry over the Satlaj, twenty-two miles east of Ludhiana. Disguised as a Muhammadan, he gave himself out as a Haji, or pilgrim from the Arabian holy places, and in this character received assistance from some Pathans. His flight was then continued on a horse brought to him by a disciple, and he was lost sight of for three months.† At length a man of village Kangir, in the Firuzpur district, found him and took him to his house.‡ Govind lived there a