The last three of the Panj Piare were Bhai Himmat Singh Ji, a water carrier of Jagannath Puri in Odisha; Bhai Mohkam Singh Ji, a calico printer of Dwarka in Gujarat; and Bhai Sahib Singh Ji, a barber of Bidar in the Deccan.
All three came from communities treated as low caste and all three came from outside Punjab, from three widely separated parts of India.
They were made to eat from one bowl with the two Khatris and then to administer amrit to the Guru himself.
All three died at Chamkaur in December 1704.
A water carrier from Odisha, a printer from Gujarat and a barber from Karnataka constituted a religious order in a Punjab hill town in 1699 and were killed defending a mud house five years later, and their names are recited daily in gurdwaras on three continents.
The Sikh Panth has never been a Punjabi organisation in its own account of itself, whatever it has been in practice.
Nothing is recorded of any of the three before they came to Anandpur, and the dates of their arrival are not known. What the tradition kept was the trade and the town, which are the two facts that make the point.
That composition is the argument the 1699 ceremony makes, and it is made by the fact of who stood up rather than by any statement about it.
All three were killed at Chamkaur in December 1704. Two of the five survived the Guru and three did not.