guruship

Updated: May 20, 2025

Since Govind had abolished the Guruship, he could not claim to be more than a temporal chief, but what he lacked in spiritual authority he made amends for in fanaticism. The eight years of his leadership were spent in a war of mutual extermination waged with the Moslims of the Panjab and diversified only by internal dissensions.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2