BHERA SRI GOBIND SINGH JI KA, also known as Var Bhere ki Patshahi Das, is an anonymous account, in Punjabi verse, of the battles of Anandgarh, Nirmohgarh and Chamkaur (1762 Bk/AD 1705). BAera from bher in Punjabi means a headon clash between two rival forces. A manuscript of this work was discovered in Baba Bir Singh's dera at Naurangabad, nearAmritsar, and has since been published in an anthology, entitled Prachin Varan teJangname, brought out by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in 1950. The BAera comprises twentyfour cantos of unequal length written in the poetic metre Nishani, with each canto preceded by a sloka. The BAera opens in the traditional style with a hymn to the Deity. The hymn is followed by a verbal duel between Kalh and Narad, the former urging the latter to inci