DAUDHAR

DAUDHAR, village 22 km southeast of Moga (30° 48`N, 75° 10`E) in Faridkot district, claims a historical shrine called Gurdwara Patshahi Pahli the Chhevin (first and sixth), commemorating the visits of Guru Nanak and Guru Hargobind, Nanak VI. Situated on a sandy mound amidst cultivated fields about one kilometre to the northwest of the village, the Gurdwara is referred to in the Gurushabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh as Gobindgarh, but is locally known as simply Kutia, i.e. a cottage.

It originally celebrated the name of Guru Hargobind who had halted here during one of his tours of the Malva, but, since the discovery, in 1914, of a copper plate and a seal during the diggings here, the name of Guru Nanak has also been associated with it. The copper plate had on one side the inscription, Nanak Tapa ihan rame. (Nanak, the ascetic, visited here), and on the other Pahli Patshahi Chhemi Ae, (the First Lord (and) the Sixth came). The seal had a single word `Nanak` on it. The plate and the seal are no longer there and were probably lost when the shrine was taken over from the Udasi priests. The Gurdwara, a small modest building, is now maintained by the village sangat. M.G.S.