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<blockquote data-quote="pk70" data-source="post: 89010" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p><strong>Re: Battle of Chamkaur</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Aad0002 ji and Bhagat Singh ji</strong></p><p> <strong>In Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh ji depicts pretty good picture of the battle of Chamkaur Sahib, I am giving in English version, not sure who translated it but seems interesting, just sharing with you</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Hadn't I taken thee to thy word upon the Koran,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">I wouldn't have chosen the path I did. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(23) </span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">I knew not that thy men were crafty and deceitful like a fox.</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Else I wouldn't have driven myself to this state.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (24) </span></span></strong> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He who swears to me on the Koran</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Ought not to have killed or imprisoned my men. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(25) </span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Thy army dressed like blue bottles,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Charged us, of a sudden, with a loud bang.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (26) </span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But they who aggressed not against us</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Were left unhurt, unmolested by us. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(28) </span></span></strong> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But, he who advanced from thy ranks beyond his defenses,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Was hit with such deadly aim of my single arrow that he was deluged in blood.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (27) </span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">When I witnessed thy general, Nahar Khan, advancing for war,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">I gave him the taste of a single deadly arrow.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (29) </span></span></strong> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And many of his men who boasted of their valour,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Fled the battlefield, in utter shame. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(30) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Then advanced another one of Afghan blood,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Rushing forth like flood, like a gun-ball, or a deadly arrow. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(31) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He made many assaults with great courage,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Some with conscious skill, and others like mad. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(32) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The more he attacked, the more he was mauled,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And then while killing two of my ranks,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He, too, fell dead in the cold dust. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(33) </span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But the cowardly and contemptible Khawaja came not forth like a man,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And hid himself behind a wall. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(34) </span></span></strong> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Had I but seen his face,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">I couldn't but have helped him too with an arrow. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(35)</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">At last, many on their side fell on the ground</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Hit by the arrows and the death dealing bullets. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(36)</span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">There was, indeed, an overpowering rain of these,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And the earth turned red like the lalla flower. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(37) </span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Torn heads and legs lay in heaps,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">As if the earth was covered with ***** and sticks. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(38) </span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The arrows whizzed, the bows twanged,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And, it brought forth from the earth only cries and yells. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(39) </span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">There were other dreadful, vengeful noises too, of weapons and men,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">When men, bravest of the brave, battled like mad.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (40) </span></span></strong> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But, what kind of chivalry is this in war,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">That countless hosts should pounce upon a mere forty of us, </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(41) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">When the lamp of the world veiled itself,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And the queen of night came forth with all her splendor.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(42) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He who trusts, however, in an oath on God,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">His Protection also in He; in need, He shows the Path. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(43) </span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">So, not even a hair of mine was touched, nor my body suffered,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">For the God, the Destroyer of my enemies, Himself pulled me out to safety.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> (44) </span></span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">I knew not that you, O man, were a perjurer,</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And a worshipper of self, and a breaker of faith. </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #000066"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">(45)</span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pk70, post: 89010, member: 5889"] [b]Re: Battle of Chamkaur[/b] [B]Aad0002 ji and Bhagat Singh ji[/B] [B]In Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh ji depicts pretty good picture of the battle of Chamkaur Sahib, I am giving in English version, not sure who translated it but seems interesting, just sharing with you[/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]Hadn't I taken thee to thy word upon the Koran, I wouldn't have chosen the path I did. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](23) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]I knew not that thy men were crafty and deceitful like a fox. Else I wouldn't have driven myself to this state.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (24) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]He who swears to me on the Koran Ought not to have killed or imprisoned my men. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](25) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]Thy army dressed like blue bottles, Charged us, of a sudden, with a loud bang.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (26) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]But they who aggressed not against us Were left unhurt, unmolested by us. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](28) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]But, he who advanced from thy ranks beyond his defenses, Was hit with such deadly aim of my single arrow that he was deluged in blood.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (27) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]When I witnessed thy general, Nahar Khan, advancing for war, I gave him the taste of a single deadly arrow.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (29) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]And many of his men who boasted of their valour, Fled the battlefield, in utter shame. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](30) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]Then advanced another one of Afghan blood, Rushing forth like flood, like a gun-ball, or a deadly arrow. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](31) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]He made many assaults with great courage, Some with conscious skill, and others like mad. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](32) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]The more he attacked, the more he was mauled, And then while killing two of my ranks, He, too, fell dead in the cold dust. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](33) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]But the cowardly and contemptible Khawaja came not forth like a man, And hid himself behind a wall. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](34) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]Had I but seen his face, I couldn't but have helped him too with an arrow. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](35)[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]At last, many on their side fell on the ground Hit by the arrows and the death dealing bullets. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](36)[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]There was, indeed, an overpowering rain of these, And the earth turned red like the lalla flower. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](37) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]Torn heads and legs lay in heaps, As if the earth was covered with ***** and sticks. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](38) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]The arrows whizzed, the bows twanged, And, it brought forth from the earth only cries and yells. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](39) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]There were other dreadful, vengeful noises too, of weapons and men, When men, bravest of the brave, battled like mad.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (40) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]But, what kind of chivalry is this in war, That countless hosts should pounce upon a mere forty of us, [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](41) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]When the lamp of the world veiled itself, And the queen of night came forth with all her splendor.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](42) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]He who trusts, however, in an oath on God, His Protection also in He; in need, He shows the Path. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](43) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]So, not even a hair of mine was touched, nor my body suffered, For the God, the Destroyer of my enemies, Himself pulled me out to safety.[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia] (44) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia]I knew not that you, O man, were a perjurer, And a worshipper of self, and a breaker of faith. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#000066][FONT=Georgia](45)[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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