Bhai Dayala (

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: ਭਾਈ ਦਿਆਲਾ ਜੀ), also known as Bhai Dayal Das, was an early

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. He was boiled alongside his Sikh companions

Bhai Mati Das Bhai Mati Das (Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਮਤੀ ਦਾਸ; died 11 November 1675; also known as Dewan Mati Dasa), along with his younger brother Bhai Sati Das were martyrs of early Sikh history. Bhai Mati Das, Bhai Dayala, and Bhai ...

and

Bhai Sati Das Bhai Sati Das (Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਸਤੀ ਦਾਸ; died 11 November 1675) along with his elder brother Bhai Mati Das were martyrs of early Sikh history. Bhai Sati Das, Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Dyal Das were all executed at ''k ...

and the Ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur.

Early life

Dayal Das was born in a

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family. Bhai Dayala was one of the twenty five or so Sikhs, alongside

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(Mata Kishan), that accompanied

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when he left Kiratpur to visit Emperor

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in Delhi in 1664.

Service of Guru Tegh Bahadur

Bhai Dayala was one of the Guru's most dearest and closest companions. Bhai Dayala was the chief of the ''sangat'' (holy congregation) at Patna Sahib and enlisted incharge of all the masands in the east, and when the Guru's son Gobind Rai (Gobind Singh) was born it was him who sent Guru Tegh Bahadur a letter, who was at Dacca, informing him of his son's birth. Bhai Dayala helped take care of the Guru's son with the help of Bhai Kirpal and was with the Guru at Lakhnaur where the Guru was with his family and son Gobind Rai when they came from Patna and headed to Baba Bakala around 1672. When the Guru left

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on 11 July 1675 where he would head towards Delhi to meet Aurungzeb he was accompanied by Bhai Dayal Das, Bhai Mati Das, and Bhai Sati Das.

Arrest

Bhai Dayala was one of the followers who accompanied Guru Tegh Bahadur when the latter left Anandpur for Delhi on 11 July 1675, the other two were brothers-

, a Dewan and

, a Scribe at Guru’s court. Along with the Ninth Guru, they were arrested on orders of

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Death

On 11 November 1675 after

' execution Bhai Dayala refuted with temperament against the Mughals calling Aurangzeb a tyrant and cursed him for committing atrocities in the name of God and religion and said there would be a demise of the Mughal empire. Bhai Dayala was tied with an iron chain like a bundle then was made to stand erect into a big

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full of water with only his head and shoulders seen. The vessel was then heated to the boiling point as Bhai Dayala began to recite

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. He was then roasted into a block of charcoal.

References

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Early life

Service of Guru Tegh Bahadur

Arrest

Death

See also

References