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AJRANA KALAN
Tags: guru, family, gurdwara, village, shahabad, committee, control, shrine, shiromani, suit, parbandhak, sikh
AJRANA KALAN, village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, 12 km southwest of Shahabad (30°lb`N, 76°53`E), is sacred to Guru Tegh Bahadur who stopped here in 1670 while on his way from Delhi to join his family at Lakhnaur. A Manji Sahib...
AKBARPUR KHUDAL
Tags: singh, guru, gurdwara, village, gobind, chief, khudal, sikh, gulab, bhora, sirsa, akbarpur
AKBARPUR KHUDAL, village 6 km northeast of Bareta (29°52'N. 75°42'E), in Mansa district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Gobind Singh, who came here in November 1706 to rescue a Sikh from captivity. According to Giani Gian Singh, Twaiikh Guru...
AKOI
Tags: guru, gurdwara, constructed, singh, village, sahib, visited, local, committee, hall, akoi, amritsar
AKOI, village 4 km north of Sangrur (30°14'N, 75°50'E) in the Punjab, has an old historical shrine in memory of Guru Hargobind, who is believed to have visited it during his travels through the Malva region in 1616. Here he was served with...
ALI SHER,
Tags: guru, village, tegh, pandher, singh, sher, bahadur, amritsar, gurdwara, offerings, money, malva
ALI SHER, village 18 km north of Mansa (29°59'N, 75°23'E) in Bathinda district of the Punjab, was visited by Guru Tegh Bahadur during his travels in the Malva region. Arriving from Pandher, he sat outside the village. The panchayat, or village...
ANANDPUR
Tags: guru, singh, sahib, anandpur, gobind, metre, gurdwara, square, kesgarh, tegh, bahadur, sikhs
ANANDPUR (31° 13'N, 76° 32'E). lit. City of Bliss, is situated on one of the lower spurs of the Shivalik range in Ropar district of the Punjab. Connected to the rest of the country by rail and road, it lies 31 km north of Ropar (Rup Nagar) and...
BHAGIRATH
Tags: guru, nanak, bhagirath, sultanpur, bhai, singh, janam, sarup, sakhis, bhalla, mahima, village
BHAGIRATH or Bhagirath, of Malsian, an old village in presentday Jalandhar district of the Punjab, who is recorded as being one of the early disciples of Guru Nanak, was according to Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 14, known as a worshipper of the Goddess...
BHAGU
Tags: amritsar, gurdwara, guru, singh, village, bathinda, thakar, sirigh, sangrahi, tirath, sangat, tara
BHAGU, village in Bathinda district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Gobind Singh, who stopped here overnight on his way from Bhuchcho to Bathinda in 1706. Gurdwara Dasvin Patshahi marks the site where the Guru had encamped. The old shrine, a small...
BHUNDAR
Tags: village, gurdwara, patshahi, sahib, chhevin, hall, shrine, guru, seated, sanctum, displayed, late
BHUNDAR, village 7 km south of Rampura Phul (30° 16`N, 75° 14`E) in Bathinda district of the Punjab, claims a historical shrine, Gurdwara Sahib Chhevin Patshahi, commemorating the visit of Guru Hargobind in 1634. The Gurdwara, situated on the...
BHUPAL
Tags: guru, bahadur, singh, tegh, village, called, birth, mark, anniversaries, gobind, nanak, place
BHUPAL, also called Bhupalan, a village 13 km north ofMansa (29° 59`N, 75° 23`E) in Bathinda district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Tegh Bahadur, who halted here for a night during his travels across the Malva region. The shrine built...
DERA BABA NANAK
Tags: guru, nanak, gurdwara, sahib, baba, chola, ajitta, committee, shrine, langar, dera, town
DERA BABA NANAK (30° 2`N, 75° 2`E), on the left bank of the River Ravi in Gurdaspur district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Nanak, who on the conclusion of one of his long travels arrived here and sat near a well owned by Ajitta Randhava,...

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