Rai Kalha III of Raikot, a Muslim chief of the Rai family, received Guru Gobind Singh Ji after Machhiwara and sheltered him.
The Guru had no news of his mother or his two younger sons. Rai Kalha sent his own man, Noora Mahi, to Sirhind to find out. He came back with the account of the bricking up and of Mata Gujri Ji's death.
The tradition holds that the Guru was sitting under a tree when the news came, and that he pulled up a plant by the roots with the point of his arrow and said that the roots of the tyranny had been pulled up in the same way.
Gurdwara Tahliana Sahib at Raikot marks the site. A vessel and other relics associated with the visit are held by the Rai family's descendants.
A Muslim chief sheltered him and sent a messenger sixty kilometres to bring him the news of his children. Rai Kalha's family kept the relics and the story for three hundred years.
The Rais held a territory of several hundred villages around Raikot and Jagraon, one of the larger Muslim chiefships south of the Sutlej, and they were among the powers the misls had to come to terms with rather than simply absorb.
Machhiwara and Raikot are about forty kilometres apart with Alamgir between them. The whole of that week sits on one short road through Ludhiana district and none of it is laid out as a route.
Gurdwara Tahliana Sahib marks the stay. The Rais' territory was taken by the British in 1849 and the family's buildings at Raikot are gone or unrecognisable.