[1] The Fatehnama was dispatched from the location of Lamma Jatpura in the Jagraon region of modern-day western Ludhiana district.

[7] The first historical mention of the Fatehnama is found in an article published in the July–August 1922 edition of the Nagari Pracharini Patrika periodical, when a certain Babu Jagan Nath Das claims to have come across and prepared a copy of purported Persian work of Guru Gobind Singh in circa 1890 that contained more than 100 couplets written in Persian, but was not identifiable as the well-known Zafarnama.

[3] The work was in the form of a manuscript kept in the possession of a mahant of Takht Patna Sahib named Baba Sumer Singh (whose term in office lasted from 1882 to 1902).

[8] Since the copy he had prepared was lost and the owner of the original manuscript was deceased and as such the document could not be located, Babu Jagan Nath Das had to reproduce the work based solely off of his memory, which led to the incomplete Fatehnama of today of 23 complete couplets and 1 incomplete couplet.

[3] He sent a written copy of his remembrance to Umrao Singh Majithia, who forwarded it to Bhai Vir Singh whom would publish the Fatehnama, alongside his Punjabi translation of it, in an essay titled Uchch da Pir found within the publication of Khalsa Samchar dated to 16 July 1942.

In Fatehnama Guru Gobind Singh says, “You have tasted the fruits of comfort and pleasure You have not had encounters with fighting youngsters… You will be a wolf drenched by rain if I lay at your door[;} a lion [released] from its trap”.