# Gurbilas Patshahi Dasvi *1751 · Kuir Singh* Written by Kuir Singh in 1751, this text is a historical narrative of Guru Gobind Singh's life within the *vilāsa* literary genre. Kuir Singh at times relates the stories as the narration of Bhai Mani Singh. It represents the first fully comprehensive narrative of Guru Gobind Singh's life. For more, see Julie Vig's PhD dissertation (2020), and Anne Murphy's *Thinking Beyond Aurangzeb and the Mughal State in a Late Eighteenth-Century Punjabi Braj Source* (2018). ## In this text - [[Worshipping the Edge of the Sword]] - [[The Sword-Bearing Guru]] - [[Importance of Shastar]] - [[Meditate on Weapons]] - [[Creating Kings]] - [[Saints Forsake Kingship]] - [[Status of the Khalsa]] - [[The Five Rehats]] - [[Lightning Blue]] - [[Brahm Kavach]] - [[Close at Hand]] - [[Guru Gobind Singh Accepting an Udasi]] - [[Guru Gobind Singh's Last Teachings]] - [[Mani Singh's Shahidi]] - [[Rasa and History]] - [[Writing Krishnavatar]] - [[Ramavatar and Dussera]]