A: While the story contains miraculous elements, most Sikh historians consider her a real person whose Sakhi has been passed down through generations. The Gurdwara dedicated to her stands as a physical testament to her existence.
True to his word, and perhaps with a heavy heart, the father searched for the most forsaken individual in the land. He found a man suffering from leprosy—a social outcast, broken in body and spirit, left to rot by the riverbank. Without hesitation, Rajni accepted her fate. In an act of profound obedience and stoicism, she married the leper, accepting him as her husband not out of choice, but out of duty.
