JHANDA RAMDAS. popularly called Ramdas, a village in Amritsar district of the Punjab, celebrates Baba Buddha of revered memory in the Sikh tradition. His son, Bhai Bhana, founded this village and named it after his own grandson, Jhanda, and the family shifted here from their ancestral village ofKatthu Narigal. The

JASST, also called JassI Bagvali to distinguish it from anotlier village of the same name, is an old village 23 km from Bathinda (30°14`N, 74°59`E). It claims an historical shrine commemorating the visit of Guru Gobind Singh who broke journey here while travelling from Muktsar through Lakkhi Jungle to Talvandl

JANDU SINGHA, village 9 km northeast of Jalandhar (31″20`N, 75°35`E) along the JalandharHoshiarpur road, claims a historic shrine, Gurdwara Panj Tirath, commemorating the visit of Guru Hargobind (15951644). According to local tradition. Guru Hargobind during his brief stay here shot five arrows in different directions. The name of the shrine

JAMBAR KAIAN, a village in Lahore district, liad a historical gurudwara in memory of Guru Arjan, who once halted here during his travels in the region. Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran, as it was popularly known, had 165 acres of land attached to it and was administered by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak

HARIPURA, an old village 15 km west of Abohar (30°8`N, 74°12`E) in Firozpur district of the Punjab, is sacred to Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh. A deep pool of water to the north of the village was an ancient place of pilgrimage known as Bad Tirath. Guru Nanak had

GURU MANGAT, a village close to Lahore Cantonment, is sacred to Guru Hargobind (15951644), who visited it during his stay at Muzarig. Gurdwara Patshahi VI, a domed building with a gilded pinnacle about 400 metres southwest of the village, stood on the site where the Guru had sojourned. The shrine

GOBINDGARH or Mandi Gobindgarh, an industrial township 9 km west of Sirhind (30°38`N, 76°23`E) has a historical shrine called Gurdwara Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji. The Gurdwara commemorates the visit of Guru Hargobind who had made a brief halt here in the course of one of his journeys through Malva

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, the chaudhan or

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 northern edge of the village, comprises an old domed structure and

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 domed room, was replaced during the early

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 29 km

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 elders, of Pandher, who had shown little attention to