In the mean time Baghel Kaur and her companions rode away to the thick forest to meet their companions. Now the injured soldiers started returning to their party to seek help. Another soldier attacked Baghel Kaur with his spear, but her friend checked his attack with her sword and injured him. In the meantime, a companion of her injured him with her sword when he was returning to save himself from the second attack. Sword of the first soldier with her sword. They planned to capture them and marry them.Īll of a sudden, Baghel Kaur came forward and cut the They did not realize that they were going to face a tough enemy. Five of them proceeded towards Baghel Kaur and her party. Soon they found fifty enemy soldiers of a patrolling party coming towards them. They got up before daybreak, performed their morning prayer and started. Turn by turn, one of them remained awake to look after the horses and the arms. These ladies reached a small village, cooked their food and slept on the ground. In the evening the Pathan army had to retreat, but in the confusion that prevailed Baghel Kaur and four other ladies were separated from the Sikh forces. Second day, Baghel Kaur with a few other ladies fought so bravely and courageously that it would be remembered for ever. At the end of the day, 500 Sikhs became martyrs, but the Pathans suffered a heavy loss. They were opposed by 10,000 Pathan forces. Th next day, four thousand Sikhs with a few hundred Sikh ladies, including Baghel Kaur, divided themselves in two parties and, riding on their horses, entered the field, fully armed, with sword and spears. Nawab Kapur Singh accepted the challenge. As he cuts, more than two hundred times we grow.” Abdali consulted Mir Mannu and sent a challenge to the Sikhs to come out of the forest and fight face to face. In those days, Sikhs used to say, “Mir Mannu is our sickle and we are his grass blades. He used every possible punishment to subordinate the Sikhs, who had left villages and started living in thick forests. He was a tyrant and bent upon converting Sikhs to Islam. His minister Kaura Mal was sympathetic towards the Sikhs, but after the death of Kaura Mal, Mir Mannu turned his attention to finish the Sikhs. He exhorted the gathering to be ready to fight against aggression for the sake of justice After a long journey, they met their companions who were there with their leader Nawab Kapur Singh. They lived on the ration they could bring from outside, meat of the animals they hunted, and whatever edible they could find in the forest. Inside this dense forest, the Sikhs had cleared some area and lived in tents there. In fact, these dense, thorny bushes served them as a fort as the Mughal soldiers were afraid of crossing them. They had to cross a dense forest and thorny bushes grown on the bank of the river Bias. Baghel Kaur and the party reached back safely and met their companions who were anxiously awaiting them.Īll left the pool of Kahnuwan (District Gurdaspur). They killed only those soldiers who resisted them.
Baghel Kaur and her companions took some guns and two horses from the soldiers and left the village before the soldiers were awake. When they reached the village, they found that the soldiers were armed, but asleep. They planned to attack a patrolling party of the Muslim soldiers and snatch their horses and arms for the newcomers. In the wilderness, Baghel Kaur and her party met a few more Sikhs known to Teja Singh. Many ladies like her lived in the wilderness near the pond of Kahnuwan in the company of the Sikhs. Now she was named Baghel Kaur, who wore a turban and not a scarf on her head.
She was encouraged to live and was baptized. She wanted to commit suicide, but was dissuaded from doing so. Teja Singh’s wife, who was in a miserable condition, was also rescued from them. One night, a party of Sikhs along with Teja Singh, attacked the same party of plunderers and taught them a lesson. They fought a guerrilla war and slipped back into the forest before they could be caught. The Sikh Warriors recovered the property he was taking with him, and got the ladies, that he was forcibly taking, released.
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