A History of Agriculture in India v2.c87.s3.11

v2.c87.s3.11

Apprehensive of the rising power of the Guru, Aurangzeb ordered the governors of Sarhind and Lahore to invest Anandpur. The Guru, confronted by a force vastly superior in numbers, was forced to leave Anandpur. At Chamkaur, his two elder sons—Ajit Singh and Jujhar Singh—died fighting the Mughals. His remaining two sons—Zorawar Singh, aged nine, and Fateh Singh, aged seven—were walled alive at Sarhind. The Guru’s mother who had accompanied them, unable to bear the shock, also died at Sarhind. The Guru took shelter in the scrub jungle of Malwa and at the village of Talwandi Sabo, now called Damdama Sahib. He collected his writings, and compiled the *Dasam Granth*.