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<p class="C1">&#65279&#7788O&#7692AR MALL, SE&#7788H, a wealthy merchant of Sirhind, according to tradition, performed the last rites for the two younger sons of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh martyred, on 12 December 1706, under the orders of Waz&#299r <u>Kh</u>&#257n, <i>faujd&#257r</i> of Sirhind, and of M&#257t&#257 Gujar&#299, the Gur&#363's mother who died of the shock on the same day. It is said that landowners around the Sirhind Fort would not permit him to hold the cremation in their fields, until one Chaudhar&#299 Att&#257 agreed to sell him a plot. The seller's stipulation was that the buyer (&#7788o&#7693ar Mall) will take only as much of the space as he could cover with gold <i>mohars</i>, he would lay out for the purchase. The Se&#7789h produced the coins and bought the piece of land he needed. He cremated the three bodies and putting the ashes in an urn buried them there. The site is now marked by Gurdw&#257r&#257 Joti Sar&#363p at Fatehga&#7771h S&#257hib, near Sirhind. Modern historians have tried to identify Se&#7789h &#7789o&#7692ar Mall as a son or later descendant of R&#257j&#257 &#7788o&#7693ar Mall, of Sirhind, who won renown as an administrator under the Mu<u>gh</u>al emperors, Sh&#257h Jah&#257n and Aura&#7749gz&#299b, and who, according to Sh&#257h Naw&#257z <u>Kh</u>&#257n, <i>Ma'&#257sir ul-Umar&#257</i>, lived up to 1076 AH/AD 1666. To perpetuate the memory of the noble-minded Se&#7789h, a road in Sirhind town and a hall in Gurdw&#257r&#257 Fatehga&#7771h S&#257hib have now been named after him.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR>
<li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Gobind Singh</i>. Chandigarh, 1967<BR>
<li class="C1"> Macauliffe, M.A., <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Gurbax Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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