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Nanded Festival Roots Sikhism - The Offical website of the Maharashtra
Tourism Development Corporation, Govt. of India
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Nanded is associated with the first as
well as the last Sikh Gurus. While Shri Guru Nanak Dev travelled through
Nanded City towards south and Sri Lanka, Shir Guru Gobind Singhji spent his
last few days of earthly life here.
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He arrived here with emperor Bhadur Shah-I towards the end of August in 1707
AD. The Mughal emperor went to Golconda, and the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji
decided to stay in Nanded. |
It appears that Shri Guru Gobind Singhji had followed
the emperor through Rajasthan and Central Province to Deccan (South) in the
hope that justice would be meted out and punishment would be given to his
persecutors, murderers of his young sons and to those who executed numerous
innocent Sikhs. But finding that the emperor was not interested in
punishing the culprits, the Guru was disappointed and decided to part with the
emperor.
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| In the first week of October 1708 having understood
that the time has come to leave the mortal attire and to depart, the Guru is
reported to have taken five coins and a coconut which he placed before the
Granth Sahib installing the Granth Sahib as Guru. The five coins are
symbolically known as Sangat. Shri Guru Gobind Singhji and formally
passed on the spiritual light of Guruship to Guru Granth Sahib. The
Shabad-Guru of the Sikhs was thus immortalized. |
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