What is the meaning of kirpan ?
Is the meaning of kirpan "merciless" as in to be merciless in battlefield ?
In sukhmani sahib
ji-o kirpan kay niraarath daam. like the wealth of a miser, which lies useless.
A miser is called kirpan because he is merciless he could help the destitute but he chooses to be dumb instead, is that the same word ?