Later Mughals v1.c6.s19.25
Later Mughals v1.c6.s19.25
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v1.c6.s19.25
"Guru Govind Singh found in Nanak, sword, pot, and conquest, help without hindrance or delay."‡ Not content with supremacy in the State, he also claimed, as other sovereigns have done, to be above grammar. By his order all nouns in Hindi and Persian having feminine terminations were changed into the masculine form. For instance, *sawari* (a retinue) and *kachari* (a Court-house or office) were pronounced by him and his Sikhs, *sawara* and *kachara*!*