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Bhai Dayala

Sikh martyr (died 1675)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Bhai Dayala, also known as Bhai Dayal Das, was an early martyr of Sikhism. He was boiled alongside his Sikh companions Bhai Mati Das and Bhai Sati Das and the Ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur.

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“Bhai Dayala” enters the record as sikh martyr (died 1675). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bhai, Dayala and Sikh can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bhai, Dayala and Sikh.
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“Bhai Dayala” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bhai, Dayala and Sikh provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bhai Dayala” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.