Benti Chaupai is extracted from the Charitropakhyan, a large narrative section of the Dasam Granth made up of many stories, and this parent section is itself the subject of one of the more significant ongoing controversies in modern Sikh scholarship, with debate continuing over whether the entire Dasam Granth, and the Charitropakhyan specifically, should be attributed to Guru Gobind Singh in full, attributed to him only in part alongside court poets writing in his circle, or treated with more caution regarding its authorship and its appropriate place in Sikh devotional life, a debate touching on serious questions of scriptural authenticity that some Sikh institutions and scholars have addressed very differently from others. This petition, drawn from within that debated larger work, is nonetheless treated with little of that same controversy in ordinary devotional practice, accepted across virtually all strands of Sikh practice as a standard part of daily recitation regardless of where a given community stands on the wider Dasam Granth authorship question.
Its use during the Amrit Sanchar, the ceremony initiating a Sikh into the Khalsa, the baptized Sikh community founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, gives it a role beyond ordinary daily recitation, recited as part of the fixed set of compositions read aloud during that initiation ceremony, so alongside its place in the evening Nitnem discipline, it also marks one of the most significant formal transitions in an individual Sikh's religious life.