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Khalsa

The initiated Sikh community founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, bound to the five articles of faith (the five Ks) and to the sant-sipahi discipline of devotion, service, and restraint; after 1708, joint bearer with the Guru Granth Sahib of the tradition's religious authority.

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