His own tragic turn came next. First, his right eye was gouged out by a butcher’s knife and then his left. His left foot was cut off next and then his two hands were severed from his body. His flesh was then torn with red-hot pincers. Finally, he was decapitated and hacked to pieces, limb by limb. But what stunned the barbarians was that all through the ordeal, Banda Singh Bahadur remained alarmingly calm and serene and died with unshaken steadiness. Years of spiritual practices and penance had seeped in deep to make him withstand such unimaginable horrors with surprising calmness and
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