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15. There were two camps of the Mughal army in that zone: one at Jindbarhi
and the other at Ropar.
16. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entries of 9 and 10.7.1714
17. It shows that the companions of Bhai Lakhi Rai Vanjara were present in
Garhwal and Kumaon zones, and, in Bareilly and Moradabad areas as well.
18. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 10.8.1714
19. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 12.8.1714
20. Irvine gives the date 16 Shaban 1126 Hijri but he calculates it as 26 August.
At that time it was Julian calendar which should be 16 August; it seems he
has calculated according to Gregorian calendar.
21. Irvine, Later Mughals, Vol I, pp. 311.
22. Veena Sachdev: Revisiting Baba Banda Singh Bahadur and his time,; an
article in Historical Geography of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur, edited by
Amarjeet Singh, page 34.
23. It was that volume which had been granted Guruship. After victory of
Sirhind, the Sikhs had brought it from nanded to Sarhind. Since then it
had been in the custody of Banda Singh.
24. This sword had been given by Guru Gobind Singh to Banda Singh on 5
October 1708, at the time of his departure for the Punjab.
25. Desa Singh Multani, Ahwal Mutallaka Khandan Banda Singh Bahadur
(1800), p.22. Guru Kian Sakhian p. 27.
26. Some times in the last months of 1714, Zain-ud-Din Ahmed Khan, the
Faujdar of Sarhind had been replaced with Khidmat Talab Khan.
27. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 5.2.1715
28. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 23-24.2.1715.
29. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 2.3.1715
30. Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i-Mu’alla, entry of 14.3.1715.
31. Khafi Khan, op. cit., p. 861.