Mata Sahib Kaur
Wife of Guru Gobind Singh, honoured as the Mother of the Khalsa. She added sugar puffs (patase) to the first amrit.
Sahib Devan was born in 1681 at Rohtas, the daughter of a Sikh named Ramu, who had offered her to the Guru. She married Guru Gobind Singh in 1700 and was given the name Sahib Kaur.
On Vaisakhi 1699, according to tradition, she brought patase, sugar puffs, and added them to the water the Guru was stirring with his khanda for the first amrit, so that the strength of the Khalsa would be tempered with sweetness. She is honoured as Mata Sahib Kaur, the Mother of the Khalsa, and every Sikh who takes amrit is told that his or her spiritual mother is Mata Sahib Kaur and spiritual father Guru Gobind Singh, and their birthplace Anandpur.
She had no children of her own. After the Guru's death she lived in Delhi with Mata Sundari, guiding the Sikhs, and died in 1747.
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Tenth Guru, warrior and poet. Created the Khalsa in 1699, fought a long war with the Mughals and hill rajas, lost his four sons and mother, and named the Guru Granth Sahib as the final Guru.
Wife of Guru Gobind Singh and mother of Ajit Singh, who led the Sikhs from Delhi for four decades after 1708 through letters of instruction.