At the Vaisakhi gathering at Anandpur, Guru Gobind Singh calls for heads, initiates the five beloved ones who offer theirs with amrit stirred by a double-edged sword, and then kneels to receive the same initiation from them; the Khalsa, the order of the pure with its five Ks and its discipline, is born, and the community's center of gravity shifts from the Guru's person to the order and the book.
Tagged: Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1699 (exact)
- Also called
- Vaisakhi 1699
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Anandpur Sahib; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- The Khalsa Panth
- Key figures
- Guru Gobind Singh, The Panj Pyare (the Five Beloved Ones)
- Key texts
- Rahitnamas (codes of discipline)
Connections
- Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur; followed
Primary Sources
- The early rahit literature
Secondary Sources
- McLeod, Sikhism (Penguin, 1997)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0515; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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