RĀM SIṄGH, a skilled artisan from Chunār Fort near Kāshī (Vārāṇasī) in Uttar Pradesh, who was with Gurū Gobind Siṅgh at Pāoṇṭā. According to Sukhā Siṅgh, Gurbilās Dāsviṅ Pātshāhī, he improvised a gun carved out of a tree-trunk. The Gurū is said to have used it in the battle of Bhaṅgānī (1688), near Pāoṇṭā.