Daya Singh

Bhai
Daya Singh
Ji
ਦਇਆ ਸਿੰਘ
Daya Singh, one of the inaugural/original Panj Pyare, depicted in an old Sikh fresco from inside an abandoned Sikh samadhi located in Kot Fateh Khan, Attock, Punjab, Pakistan
Panj Pyare
In office
1699–1708
Personal
Born
Daya Ram Sobhi

1661
Lahore, Punjab (modern-day Pakistan)
Died1708 (aged 47)
Nanded, India
Cause of deathMartyrdom
ReligionSikhism
Parents
  • Suddha (father)
  • Mai Dayali (mother)
Known forMember of the original, inaugural Panj Pyare; was the first to answer the call by the Guru for a head
OccupationShopkeeper
Organization
InstituteKhalsa
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Daya Singh (Punjabi: ਦਇਆ ਸਿੰਘ (Gurmukhi); born Daya Ram; 1661–1708) was one of the Panj Pyare, the first five Sikhs to be initiated into the Khalsa order in 17th-century India.[1]

  1. ^ Sangat Singh (2001). The Sikhs in history: a millennium study, with new afterwords. Uncommon Books. p. 71. ISBN 978-81-900650-2-3.

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