Hargobind succeeds his father wearing two swords, of miri and piri, temporal and spiritual authority together, and builds the Akal Takht, the throne of the Timeless One, facing the Harimandir; the sixth Guru keeps a court and an army, and the community takes its martial form.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1606 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Amritsar; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- The Khalsa Panth, Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Hargobind
Connections
- Martyrdom of Guru Arjan; followed
Primary Sources
- Dabistan-i Mazahib
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0509; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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