Place · hill fort & Bhakti seat · India
Gāgron Fort
Also known as Gagron Fort, Gāgron
One of the six Hill Forts of Rajasthan, standing on a spur where the Ahu meets the Kali Sindh, so that water covers three sides and no ditch was ever needed. It was the Khichi Chauhan seat, fell to Malwa in 1423 and to the Mughals later, and it is the fort the bhagat Pipa ruled before he renounced it.
- Date
- 1423 and 1532
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Tradition
- Bhagat bani in the Guru Granth Sahib
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 24.640, 76.190
Worth knowing
Pipa, a Khichi Chauhan ruler of this fort, gave up the throne to become a disciple of Ramananda, and one of his shabads is in the Guru Granth Sahib — which makes Gagron a Rajasthani hill fort that appears in Sikh scripture. The fort also holds the dargah of Mitthe Shah and a Sufi fair held inside the walls.
Connections (2)
- Scriptural inclusion inHemkunt Sāhib
Pipa, a Rajput ruler of Gagron in Rajasthan, gave up his throne to become a disciple of Ramanand, and one of his compositions is in the Guru Granth Sahib. The Sikh scripture therefore includes a renunciant king alongside a weaver, a leather-worker, a butcher and a Chishti shaikh — the bhagat bani was assembled on the criterion of what the compilers judged true, not of who had said it.
- Scriptural inclusion inHarmandir Sāhib (Golden Temple)
Pipā, the Rajput ruler of Gāgron who abdicated to follow Rāmānanda, is the one bhagat who came down into the movement from above. The fifteen between them cover weavers, cobblers, calico-printers, butchers, a barber and a king, which is the demographic argument the book makes without stating it. Pipā's Gāgron is one of very few Indian hill forts surrounded by water on three sides, and it is still standing above the confluence he gave up to follow a weaver's teacher.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Gagron Fort”. UNESCO World Heritage nomination file for the Hill Forts of Rajasthan (2013); bhagat bani of Pipa in the Guru Granth Sahib.
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