(sinj): literally, "tiger warrior," and a term of honor; exceptional Tigers of Indra may be asked to join a tanadar's Singh Squad (equivalent to a Space Marine Command Squad) Surya Ashoka (sur-YAH ah-SHOCK-ah): former ruler of Mahaduyana who, with Shrendi Vashtar, inherited rule of the Fighting Tigers after Shiva Nagordarika was crippled by a Bloodthirster Surya lives on as a Tiger Eternal (Dreadnought)
Literally, a Lion; the common last name of the male Sikhs It is a compulsory last name of the baptized male Sikhs
Lion, the common last or middle name of male Sikhs It is a compulsory last name for male Khalsa Sikhs
orig. Gobind Rai born 1666, Patna, Bihar, India died Oct. 7, 1708, Nanded, Maharashtra Sikh Guru. The son of Guru Tegh Bahadur (1664-75), he was trained in the martial arts in the Punjab. When he was nine his father was executed, and he became the 10th and last Guru of Sikhism, presiding over the Sikh court at Anandpur. A scholar and poet, he is credited with putting the di Granth into its final form. His other great achievement was the founding (1699) of the Khalsa, the egalitarian community that gave Sikhism its political and religious definition and galvanized its martial energies. He was continually at war with local Hindu chiefs and the Mughal authorities, who together forced the Sikhs out of Anandpur in 1704 and killed his four sons. After the death of Aurangzeb, he supported the claim of the future emperor, Bahadur Shah (1643-1712), to the throne. He was assassinated before he could persuade Bahadur Shah to allow the Sikhs' return to Anandpur
born Nov. 13, 1780, Budrukhan or Gujranwala, India died June 27, 1839, Lahore Founder and maharaja (1801-39) of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He became chief of the Shukerchakias (a Sikh group located in what is now Pakistan) on the death of his father in 1792. In 1799 he seized Lahore, the capital of the Punjab (and now in Pakistan), and in 1801 he proclaimed himself maharaja of the Punjab. In 1802 he captured Amritsar, a city sacred to the Sikhs, and by 1820 he had consolidated his rule over the whole of Punjab between the Sutlej and the Indus rivers. The Sikh state he created, which had included Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus in both the army and the cabinet, collapsed soon after his death