NAGAHĪĀ, BHĀĪ (d. 1709), was, according to Bhaṭṭ Vahī sources, the eldest of the seven sons of Lakkhī Rāi and a grandson of Godhū Baṛhtīā Kanāvat of the Jādo (Yādav) clan. Nagāhīā helped his father Lakkhī Rāi remove the headless trunk of Gurū Tegh Bahādur from the site of execution and cremate it in their own house. Bhaṭṭ Kesho, recording the obsequies performed in the year 1675 at Rāisīnā, now part of New Delhi, says: "Pārāṅ Deī Grambinī is twice blessed for she had given birth to a son like Nagāhīā... who managed to take away from Chāndnī Chowk the dead body of Srī Gurū Tegh Bahādur, with the help of his father Lakkhī Rāi, thereby earning for himself and his father eternal fame and glory." Nagāhīā laid down his life in April 1709 in the vicinity of Gurū Chakk (Amritsar) fighting against Hari Sahāi, the chief of Paṭṭī, who had led out an expedition against the Sikhs.

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