Mata Gujari
Mata Gujari , 1705, Sikh saint. Daughter of one Lal Chand of Kartarpur, in Punjab, she was the wife of the ninth guru, Tegh Bahadur. She gave birth to Gobind Singh, the tenth and the last guru, at Patna in 1675, where her husband was serving under a raja of Assam. On return to Punjab, when her husband went to Aurangzeh to intercede with the emperor for the Hindus, he was imprisoned and beheaded (1675). She with her two grandsons, sought shelter with a Brahman who treacherously made her over to the governor of Sirhind, who had the two children executed (1705). When she heard the news, she collapsed and died of shock. A gurdwara, called Fatehgarh Saheb, at Sirhind, has been erected at the spot. She is revered by the Sikhs as a saint.
