Maastarji · Crossword № 7

The Panj Pyare: Five Beloved Ones

21 × 9 · 7 across · 7 down · medium · Ages 10-14
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Across

  1. 2 The spring festival of March 30, 1699, when nearly eighty thousand Sikhs gathered and the Khalsa was born.
  2. 3 The great Mughal city where Bhai Daya Singh Ji — the first to rise — was born in 1661.
  3. 7 The 'Letter of Victory' written in Persian verse that Bhai Daya Singh Ji carried to Emperor Aurangzeb in the Deccan.
  4. 8 The sacred nectar prepared in an iron bowl, given to the Panj Pyare at the birth of the Khalsa.
  5. 10 Righteousness — the virtue of the second Beloved One, a farmer from Hastinapur who rose despite two men already gone.
  6. 12 The Sikh order founded by Guru Gobind Singh Ji when five ordinary men offered their heads and became immortal.
  7. 13 The 1705 battle where forty Khalsa warriors faced ten thousand soldiers — and three of the five original Beloved Ones gave their lives.

Down

  1. 1 The sugar puffs that Mata Sahib Kaur Ji added to the Amrit, bringing sweetness and compassion to the warriors.
  2. 4 The Sikh prayer recited daily in every Gurdwara, in which the names of the Panj Pyare are remembered.
  3. 5 Courage — the virtue of the third Beloved One, who travelled from Jagannath Puri in Odisha to serve at Anandpur.
  4. 6 Compassion — the virtue carried by the first Beloved One, who was also the first to rise when Guru Ji called.
  5. 9 Steadfastness — the virtue of the fourth Beloved One, a cloth printer from Dwarka in Gujarat who rose fourth.
  6. 11 The city in the Shivalik hills where Guru Gobind Singh Ji gathered eighty thousand Sikhs on Vaisakhi 1699.
  7. 12 The double-edged sword used to stir water while reciting five sacred Banis, preparing the Amrit.