Sharan Kaur was a young Sikh woman of Raipur Rani, a village near Chamkaur. After the battle of Chamkaur in December 1704, the bodies of the Guru's elder sons and the Singhs who fell with them were left on the field.
Going out at night, she found the Sahibzade among the dead, gathered wood and cremated them with the Singhs. The Mughal soldiers saw the fire and came; she was caught and thrown into the pyre, burning with the martyrs.
Her courage is remembered at Gurdwara Katalgarh Sahib and at Chamkaur.
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The Guru's elder sons, aged about seventeen and thirteen, who led sorties out of the Chamkaur fort and died fighting.
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.