SHIKAAR ITHIHAAS

'Around midday the Guru would again bathe, dress in new clothes and adorn themselves with various weapons and armoury. They would take a hawk in their hand, gather their soldiers together and set off. They would hunt various animals, race their horses and perform many...

ਭਈ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤਿ ਸਿੱਖ ਇਕ ਗਯੋ । ਗੁਰ ਕੋ ਹੁਕਮ ਸਨਾਵਤਿ ਭਯੋ । ਹੇਤ ਅਖੇਰ ਖੇਲਿਬੇ ਚਹ੍ਯੋ । ਚਲਹਿਂ ਸੰਗ ਗੁਰ ਐਸੇ ਕਹ੍ਯੋ ।28।⁣ In the early morning a Sikh went to the King of Mandi and announced a command of Guru Arjan, "The Guru wishes to go hunting and requests you join along". ⁣ ⁣ ਸੁਨਿ...

ਥਲ ਕਛਾਰ ਕੋ ਸੁੰਦਰ ਆਵਾ । ਖਿਲਤਿ ਅਖੇਰ ਤਹਾ ਮਨ ਭਾਵਾ । ਆਮਿਖ ਪਾਵਨ ਹੈ ਜਿਨ ਕੇਰੇ । ਹਤੇ ਹੇਰਿ ਕਰਿ ਫਿਰ ਤਿਸ ਬੇਰੇ । ੭ । ⁣ Guru Tegh Bahadur and his warriors came across a beautiful marsh, where they engaged in hunting to their fullest desire. Searching for animals worth hunting pure...

In addition to "chäpätis" and "dal," meat and vegetables are eaten. These vegetables comprise onions, carrots, and potatoes mixed together. The only meat that is generally eaten is goats' flesh. All goats must have been slain by the knife in a certain manner.  This...

ਸਿੱਖ ਹੋਇ ਆਮਿਖ ਭਖੈ, ਬਿੱਪ੍ਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੋ ਖਾਇ । A Sikh is one who eats meat, a Brahmin is one who does not.SHARE GYAAN WITH THE SANGATThis is a truly panthic effort, we would be honoured to add your findings here. Please provide the exact reference and content in either...

In their diet the Sikhs are extremely simple. Rice and attah, a coarse kind of flour, constitute the staple of their food, to which they add the flesh of fowls, fish, condiments, and spices, milk vegetables, and fruits. Beef is interdieted, and mutton sparingly...

'The Punjab a Hundred Years Ago' is the edited and translated works of V. Jacquemont (1831) & A. Soltykoff (1842) Maharaja Ranjit Singh took bread, pulao, milk and fruits in his lunch. His dinner contained a little rice and a quail or half a partridge with some...

In less than five minutes, we found ourselves seated on golden chairs opposite Runjeet, who re- mained in his litter supported on the bearers' shoulders. Five minutes more sufficed to produce breakfast. Runjeet's table was formed by one of his servants standing up...

26th June.—This morning, at sunrise, ordered our elephants, and went out to try and relieve the monotony of our life by a few hours' shooting. Proceeded straight to a rumna, or preserve, of the Maharajah's, which we supposed to abound in wild hog, hares, and black...

At six o'clock mounted our elephants and proceeded to a jungle a few miles off, where I had promised to meet Sher Sing and have a few hours' wild hog and deer shooting. Found him waiting our arrival with an immense establishment of elephants. and we fell in with a...