Hathu Singh

Hathu Singh, of Kahna Kachha, a village in Lahore district (now in Pakistan), was an eighteenthcentury Sikh warrior. According to Ratan Singh Bhangu, Prdchin Panth Prakash, once while fighting against Durrani invaders, his horse stumbled and fell over him. Hathu Singh could not drag himself out soon enough and was taken prisoner by the enemy. He was escorted to the presence of Ahmad Shah, the Durrani king, who ordered that he be thrown in front of a ferocious elephant to be trampled over. As the story goes, the royal orders were carried out but the elephant did not budge the ground. Hathu Singh was then cast amid two elephants facing each other. As the animals pulled their weight in opposite directions, his body was split into two.

References

1. Bhangu, Ratan Singh, Prachin Panth Prakash. Amritsar, 1914