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<p class="C1">&#65279NAND R&#256M, one of the poets who kept Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh (1666-1708) company, was the son of a well-known S&#363f&#299 poet, Val&#299 R&#257m. He had been in the service of D&#257r&#257 Shukoh, who, having lost the struggle for succession to his father's throne, was executed by his brother, Emperor Aura&#7749gz&#299b, in 1659 : When he came under the patronage of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh is not known. Two of his poems, <i>Nand Pach&#299s&#299</i> and <i>Ka&#7771kh&#257 Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh K&#257</i>, both in Gurmukh&#299 script, have survived. The former describing Kaliyuga, the contemporary Age of Darkness, was written in 1687 and the latter, an ode on the life of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh, sometime after the battle of Chamkaur (1705).</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Padam, Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh J&#299 de Darb&#257r&#299 Ratan</i>. Patiala, 1976<BR>
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