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Guru Har Rai Ji: The Seventh Guru

Solve the crossword on Guru Har Rai Ji — the free hospital, the cure of Prince Dara Shikoh, the famine relief, and why Baba Ram Rai was banished.

Across

  1. 4One of the Phulkian princely states that grew from Guru Har Rai's blessing.
  2. 5The force of 2,200 horse-soldiers Guru Har Rai kept, as his grandfather had ordered.
  3. 6Guru Har Rai's free herbal store gave this to the sick, even to a Mughal prince.
  4. 10The young son Guru Har Rai chose as the eighth Guru instead of Ram Rai — Guru ___.
  5. 11The town where Guru Har Rai was born and where he later left this world.
  6. 13The place of healing Guru Har Rai set up, giving out the finest medicines free.
  7. 14The sixth Guru, Har Rai's grandfather, who chose him to lead the Sikhs — Guru ___.

Down

  1. 1The princely states (Patiala, Nabha, Jind) born from Guru Har Rai's blessing on Phula and Sandal.
  2. 2Guru Har Rai's father, the eldest son of Guru Hargobind — Baba ___.
  3. 3Guru Har Rai's elder son, banished for changing a word of Guru Nanak's Bani to please the emperor — Baba ___. — two words.
  4. 7The prince, Shahjehan's son, cured by Guru Har Rai's rare herbs — ___ Shikoh.
  5. 8Meditation on God's ___, which Guru Har Rai called a potent medicine for every worry.
  6. 9The tenth of their earnings that Sikhs give; Guru Har Rai used it for famine relief.
  7. 12The Mughal emperor who summoned Guru Har Rai to Delhi.

What you'll learn

  • Guru Har Rai, the seventh Guru — the ‘gentle healer’ and his free hospital
  • How he cured Prince Dara Shikoh and gave famine relief from Dasvandh
  • Why Baba Ram Rai was banished for changing a word of Gurbani

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