The Khalsa and the Ten Gurus

Khalsa was a Mughal term for crown land held directly by the ruler. Saināpati's Srī Gur Sobhā (probably 1711) says the Guru made all Sikhs his Khalsa by abolishing the masands.

Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, s.v. Khālsā and s.v. Srī Gur Sobhā, citing Saināpati, Srī Gur Sobhā (probably completed 1711)

The ten Sikh Gurus, Nanak to Gobind Singh, and the Khalsa order he founded in 1699.

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Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, ed. Harbans Singh (Punjabi University, Patiala), Khālsā, s.v. KhālsāKhālsā was the Mughal term for crown lands; initiated on 30 March 1699; Saināpati says the Guru made all Sikhs his Khālsā by removing the masands; guruship conferred on the Khālsā along with the Granth.
crown-lands administered directly by the king
Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, ed. Harbans Singh (Punjabi University, Patiala), Srī Gur Sobhā, s.v. Srī Gur SobhāDating of Saināpati's Srī Gur Sobhā: author's date 1701, but it includes events to October 1708 and was probably completed in 1711; it defines Khālsā by the elimination of the masands.
completed it probably in 1711