[3] It was the first text of the Gurbilas genre and it narrates the life of Guru Gobind Singh and the establishment of the Khalsa order.

[2][3] The text was written in Gurmukhi in a language that is described as a mixture of Braj and eastern Punjabi that is Sanskritized.

[4] The work contains references to particular terms, such as misl, which it uses to describe a military unit, which helps our understanding of the meaning particular vocabulary held at the time.

[4] Two manuscripts of the work were kept in the collection of the Sikh Reference Library at the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar but were lost in the events of Operation Blue Star in 1984.

[4] According to Gurmukh Singh, Sainapati was enlarging the initial draft overtime in-order to produce the final work.