Mata Sundari
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.
Mata Sundari was the wife of Guru Gobind Singh and the mother of his eldest son Ajit Singh, born in 1687 at Paonta. She went through the sieges of Anandpur and was separated from her husband in 1704; she lived in Delhi afterwards.
After the Guru's death in 1708, she became the leader of the Sikhs for some forty years. From Delhi she sent hukamnamas, letters of instruction, to the sangats, appointed Bhai Mani Singh to manage the Harmandir Sahib, and settled the quarrel between the Tat Khalsa and the Bandai Sikhs.
She adopted a boy, whom she named Ajit Singh after her son; he was executed for murder. She died in Delhi in 1747. Gurdwara Mata Sundri in Delhi stands where she lived.
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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, honoured as the Mother of the Khalsa. She added sugar puffs (patase) to the first amrit.