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Sardar Buddha Singh Sandhu
was a great-great-grandfather of Maharaja
Ranjit Singh. He founded the Village
(town) of Sukkarchakia. One of his ancestors,
Bhara Mall, who lived in Gujranwala
district had been initiated into Sikh
faith by Seventh Guru, guru Har Rai.
Buddha Singh received the rites of
amrit at the hands of Guru Gobind Singh
himself and fought in battles under
him and under Banda Singh Bahadur. He
constructed a big house at Sukkarchak
and acquired considerable influence
in those turbulent times. He was elected
the village Chaudhri or chief. He was
a daring horseman, and there were many
legends current about his adventures
on his favorite piebald mare called
Desi. It is said that on the back of
Desi he swam across the Ravi, Chenab
and Jehlum rivers as many as fifty times.
The dauntless warrior had on his body
scars of scores of wounds by sword,
spear and gun. He died in 1718.
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