[2][3] He was such a prolific writer that the Sikh Reference Library at Darbar Sahib Amritsar was named after him, located within the Mahakavi Santokh Singh Hall.

[6] Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner in 1883 wrote that, "Santokh Singh of Kantal in the Karnal District, has rendered his name immortal" through the production of his works.

[2] His father was Deva Singh of the Karir subcaste of the Chhimba caste, and his mother was Mai Rajadi.

[8] Until the end of the first decade of the 19th century, he had the personal bunga of his teacher, Giani Sant Singh, as his place of residence.

[8] After his time spent in Amritsar, he found employment as a katha (religious discourse) performer in the court of the chief of Dyalgarh, Bhagwant Singh, at the Buria estate, where he remained until 1823.

[10] He wrote the Garab Ganjani Teeka to counter the interpretation of Guru Nanak's Japji Sahib composition by the Udasi scholar Anandghan.

[21] One example includes context clarifying that Santokh Singh's devotional focus: Professor Ashanand Vohra, Member of Punjabi Board of Studies, Kurukshetra university, who Santokh Singh's Garab Ganjani Teeka (1829), comparing it with other Sanskrit and Brajbhasha alaṃkāraśāstras, writes: Harjot Oberoi writes that Santokh Singh's Suraj Prakash "to this day is consulted by Sikh public and religious officiants for an explication of Sikh tenets and the life-stories of the gurus".