Guru Arjun, the fifth Sikh Guru, enduring his martyrdom
by Bodhraj, 1987oil on canvas, signed and dated '87 lower left
85 x 61 cm.注脚Guru Arjun (1581-1606) was a poet and was responsible for compiling anthologies of hymns and other religious writings. He wrote more than half of the six thousand hymns which make up the Adi Granth. He also continued the growth of the township of Amritsar, begun by Guru Ram Das, and so essentially gave the town its status as a place of pilgrimage. Accounts of the nature of his execution by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir differ: here the artist seems to adhere to the tradition that he was tortured in Lahore Fort.