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BARHE, village 6 km southwest of Budhlada Mandi (29° 55`N, 75° 33`E) in Bathinda district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Tegh Bahadur, who, according to the Sakhi Pothi, spent a rainy season here, while travelling through the Malva country. Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib commemorating the visit is on the northwestern outskirts of the village, near a big pond a part of which has been converted into a sarovar. An extensive complex has developed around the old Manji Sahib, a domed room with a square platform within it, near an old van tree.
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BARNA, village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, about 20 km southwest of Kurukshetra (29° 58`N, 76° 50`E), is sacred to Guru Tegh Bahadur who once stopped here while journeying from Kaithal to Kurukshetra. Local tradition recalls the story of a peasant who waited upon him and to survey whose land a revenue official arrived in the village the same day. The Sikh asked the Guru`s permission to go and have his land measured.
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BASALI, village about 20 km southwest of Kiratpur (31° ll`N, 76° 35`E) in Ropar district of the Punjab, has a historical shrine, Gurdwara Guru Chaunki Jhira Sahib, dedicated to Guru Gobind Singh who after the battle ofNirmohgarh in October 1700 stayed here for several days at the invitation of the chief of Basalt. The original shrine inside the haveli or fortified house of the chief is no longer in existence. The present complex of the Gurdwara, south of the village, was raised in 1982.
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BASARKE GILLAN, village 12 km southwest of Amritsar (31° 38`N, 74° 52`E) on the ChhehartaJhabal link road, is sacred to Guru Amar Das, Nanak III, who was born here on 5 May 1479. There are three historical shrines in the village. GURDWARA JANAM ASTHAN, a small shrine privately managed, is situated on the site of the old village Basarke, now extinct, to the north of the present habitation. It marks the ancestral house and birthplace of Guru Amar Das.
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BASSI KALAN, pronounced Basi Kalan, village 12 km southeast of Hoshiarpur (31°32`N, 75°55`E) claims a historical shrine called Gurdwara Baba Ajit Singh after the eldest son of Guru Gobind Singh, who, at his father`s bidding, came here on 7 March 1703 at the head of 100 horsemen and rescued a Brahman`s bride forcibly taken away by the village chief, Jabbar Khan. The lady was restored to her husband and Jabbar Khan suitably punished. A simple mud hut that existed here as a memorial was replaced in 1980 by the present building, a 4metre square room with a circumambulatory verandah around it, by SantJavala Singh, who still manages it.
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