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he found all dead except Mai Bhago and the previous leader of the deserters, Mahan Singh. Mahan Singh, who had been seriously wounded, died as the Guru took him into his lap. All forty of the Sikhs who came to redeem themselves died as well as Mai Bhago's brothers and husband and attained martyrdom in this pitched battle. Some sources say Mai Bhago's children were martyred there too.
233:), led by Mahan Singh Rataul, told Guru Gobind Singh that they were not his Sikhs anymore. The Guru told them that they would have to write a document that said "We are not your Sikhs anymore" and sign it. All forty Sikhs (except one: 'Bedava') wrote their names on this document, and left Guru Gobind Singh.
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Mai Bhago and her men attacked the pursuing
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On around 1704 the Mughal hill chiefs had surrounded
Anandpur Sahib and were demanding it be evacuated stopping provisions for food and the siege lasting a few months. They announced that any Sikh who would say that "he/she is not anymore a Sikh of Guru Gobind" would be left untouched while others
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Mai Bhago was distressed to hear that some of the Sikhs of her neighbourhood, who had gone to
Anandpur to fight for Guru Gobind Singh, had deserted him under adverse conditions. She criticised them openly; hearing her taunts, these Sikhs were ashamed of their betrayal. Mai Bhago rallied the
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Anandpur. His children had already been separated in the retreat by the betraying Mughal army and the Hill Chiefs. The two youngest ones,
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Janwada, 11 km from Bidar in Karnataka, setting up her
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deserters, and persuaded them to meet with the Guru and apologize to him. She set off with them (and some other Sikhs) to seek out the Guru, who were traveling across the
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Tap Asthan Mai Bhago. At Nanded, too, a hall within the compound of Takht
Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib marking the site of her former residence is known as Bunga Mai Bhago.
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411:) in the memory of Mai Bhag Kaur. The weapons of Mai Bhago are kept in the Hazur Sahib Gurudwara complex at Abchalnagar Nanded, India.
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