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Panj Pyare

Guru Gobind Singh selected five Sikh men - Bhai Daya Singh, Bhai Dharam Singh, Bhai Himmat Singh, Bhai Mohkam Singh and Bhai Sahib Singh - at Anandpur Sahib on March 30, 1699 to form the nucleus of the Khalsa. They were the first to receive khanda di Pahul, the rites of the two-edged sword. In Sikh theology, the number five has special significance, referring to spiritual stages or an inner council. These five men were given the collective name Panj Pyare and established the initiation ceremony that is still practiced today.

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Panj Pyare

Guru Gobind Singh selected five Sikh men - Bhai Daya Singh, Bhai Dharam Singh, Bhai Himmat Singh, Bhai Mohkam Singh and Bhai Sahib Singh - at Anandpur Sahib on March 30, 1699 to form the nucleus of the Khalsa. They were the first to receive khanda di Pahul, the rites of the two-edged sword. In Sikh theology, the number five has special significance, referring to spiritual stages or an inner council. These five men were given the collective name Panj Pyare and established the initiation ceremony that is still practiced today.

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Panj Pyare (Punjabi: , Paj Pi'r, literally the five beloved ones), is

the name collectively given to the five Sikh men, Bhai Daya Singh, Bhai Dharam
Singh, Bhai Himmat Singh, Bhai Mohkam Singh and Bhai Sahib Singh by Guru
Gobind Singh at the historic divan at Anandpur Sahib on 30 March 1699. They
formed the nucleus of the Khalsa, as the first batch to receive khanda di Pahul,
i.e. rites of the two-edged sword.
Panj pyare

In Sikh theology, as in the Indian classical tradition generally, panj () or paanch


(), i.e. the numeral five, has a special significance. Guru Nanak inJapji refers
to five khands, i.e. stages or steps in spiritual development, and calls a spiritually
awakened person a panch. The ancient Indian socio-political institution
panchayat meant a council of five elders. Something like an inner council of five
existed even in the time of the earlier Gurus: five Sikhs accompanied Guru Arjan
on his last journey to Lahore; the five were each given 100 armed Sikhs to
command by his successor, Guru Hargobind; Guru Tegh Bahadur, set out on his
journey to Delhi to court execution attended by five Sikhs.
Until the Baisakhi of AD 1699, Sikh initiation ceremony, Charan Pahul, comprised
the administering of charanamrit or charanodak to the novitiate. As Bhai Gurdas,
Varan, I.23, records, this was the practice Guru Nanak introduced for the Sikhs.
At the ceremony the novitiate quaffed water poured over the foot of the Guru and
vowed to follow the religious and moral injunctions as well as the code of
communal conduct laid down. Later, masands or local leaders, specially
authorized by the Gurus, also administered charan pahul. According to Kesar
Singh Chhibbar, Bansavalinama, a modification was introduced in the time of
Guru Hargobind when water, poured over the toe of the right foot of each of the
five chosen Sikhs assembled in a dharamsal, was received in a bowl and
administered to the seekers after ardas or supplicatory prayer.

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