...and xvii. 239, note.) f Sikhs are not ordinarily initiated until they reach the age of diserimination and remembrance, or not before they are seven years...rule on the subject, nor is there any declaratory cerethey should honour the memory of Niinuk and of his transanimate successors*; their watchword should...

...The rites of initiation into Sikhism were as follows : " Sikhs are not ordinarily initiated before they reach the age of discrimination and remembrance,...not before they are seven years of age, or sometimes not before they have attained manhood The essentials are that five Sikha at least should be assembled,...

...Sikh is initiated is taken from A History of the Sikhs, by the late Joseph Davey Cunningham * : — " Sikhs are not ordinarily initiated until they reach...until they have attained to manhood. But there is ho authoritative rule on the subject, nor is there any declaratory ceremonial of detail which can be...