ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KAUL SO&#7692H&#298</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="KAUL,SO H*"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279KAUL, SO&#7692H&#298, or So&#7693h&#299 Ka&#7749val Nain (1638-1706), son of B&#257b&#257 Harij&#299 and a great-grandson of B&#257b&#257 Prith&#299 Chand, the elder brother of Gur&#363 Arjan (1563-1606), was born at Muhammad&#299pur village in Lahore district of the Punjab (now in Pakistan). He was educated under eminent men of letters at Amritsar where his father had been in control of the Harimandar and other Sikh shrines since 1639 as head of the M&#299&#7751&#257 sect. About 1664 So&#7693h&#299 Kaul also spent some time at Lahore learning history, mythology and Persian. He became head of the sect after the death of his father in 1696. In 1699 control of the Amritsar shrines was taken over by Bh&#257&#299 Man&#299 Si&#7749gh and five other Si&#7749ghs who had been sent for this purpose by Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh from Anandpur. So&#7693h&#299 Kaul then moved to &#7692hilv&#257&#7749 Kal&#257&#7749, a village gifted to him by Chaudhar&#299 Kap&#363r&#257 of Ko&#7789 Kap&#363r&#257 in present-day Far&#299dko&#7789 district of the Punjab. Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh visited that village in December 1705 when So&#7693h&#299 Kaul and his four sons received him with honour. Here, at Kaul's suggestion, the Gur&#363 discarded the blue attire he had put on at M&#257chh&#299v&#257&#7771&#257. One of So&#7693h&#299 Kaul's grandsons, Abhai R&#257m, undertook the vows of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257 at the hands of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh and was renamed Abhai Si&#7749gh. B&#257b&#257 Kaul's last days were spent at Ko&#7789h&#257 Gur&#363, a village founded by Prith&#299 Chand, where he died in 1706. A shrine and a <i>sam&#257dh</i> in the village honour his memory.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Balwant Si&#7749gh Gi&#257n&#299, <i>B&#257b&#257 Kaul S&#257hib</i>.<BR> <li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-33<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, M.A., <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Gi&#257n&#299 Balwant Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>