 Before Mahan Singh died, Guru Gobind Singh took the document and tore it up.It is a legendary belief that this gave ""mukti"", meaning freedom, to those 40 Sikhs and hence, the city got its modern-day name Muktsar, where the word ""sar"" is derived from the word ""sarovar"", meaning reservoir, with reference to the Kidrana reservoir.In the days of persecution of the Sikhs, Jassa Singh often took refuge in the jungles of Muktsar.