The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (944 page)

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was victorious in four engagements with Mughal forces. The Gur
died in K
ratpur 1644. Contemporary sources contain minor inconsistencies regarding his life, and Hargobind wrote no hymns, but a clear picture, reinforced by
iconography
, emerges of his impact on Sikhism.
Hari
.
Divine manifestation, in Hinduism, especially in the forms of
Vi
u
and
K
a
, but of innumerable different figures also—including
is
and lawgivers. Because Hari is the means through which
Brahman
becomes manifest (
Vi
u Pur
a
1.22), he becomes equated with the personal form of God in general (
vara
).

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