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Damdamā Sāhib, Talwandi Sabo
The gurdwara at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda district, Punjab, where Guru Gobind Singh rested for nine months in 1706 after the four-year war of Anandpur and the loss of his sons, and where he dictated the final recension of the Guru Granth Sahib to Bhai Mani Singh. This Damdama Sahib Bir — the 'canonical recension' — remains the standard text of the Granth to this day. One of the Five Takhts of Sikhism, Damdama Sahib is the textual rather than architectural centre of the panth. The Baisakhi fair here each April draws nihang Sikhs and other martial orders.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Tradition
- Sikh tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 29.980, 75.080
Connections (2)
- Canonised by textGuru Gobind Singh
At Damdamā in 1705 Gobind Singh dictated the Granth's final recension to Bhai Mani Singh, adding Tegh Bahadur's hymns and none of his own. Closing the book without putting himself in it is what made it possible to give it the guruship three years later. Damdamā is called the Gurū kī Kāshī and taught Gurmukhi and scripture for generations afterwards, which is the Sikh tradition building its own seat of learning rather than borrowing one.
- Takht set withHarmandir Sāhib (Golden Temple)
Amritsar and Damdamā are the Granth's two great sites: compiled at one in 1604, closed at the other in 1705. Damdamā is called the Gurū kī Kāshī and taught Gurmukhi and scripture for generations — the Sikh tradition building its own seat of learning rather than borrowing one. Bhai Mani Singh, who wrote the Damdamā recension to Gobind Singh's dictation, was later executed at Lahore for failing to pay a levy on a Sikh gathering at Amritsar.
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Takht Sri Damdama Sahib
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