Place · Namdev gurdwara village · India
Ghumān
The village in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, 65 kilometres from Amritsar, where Namdev — the Marathi Varkari sant from Pandharpur (c.1270-1350) — spent his last eighteen years and died, having been drawn north by his teaching mission. Sixty-one of his hymns in Marathi, Hindi and Khari Boli entered the Guru Granth Sahib under Guru Arjan's compilation of 1604. The gurdwara at Ghuman commemorates his samadhi and preserves his hat and manuscripts. The site is one of the clearest examples of a Varkari-Marathi sant becoming a Sikh canonical bhagat — a textual tradition carrying personal geography across Deccan and Punjab.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Tradition
- Bhagat bani in the Guru Granth Sahib
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.730, 75.250 (approximate)
Connections (2)
- Scriptural inclusion inHarmandir Sāhib (Golden Temple)
Namdev, a Marathi sant of Pandharpur, spent his last eighteen years at Ghuman in Punjab, and sixty-one of his compositions are in the Guru Granth Sahib — more than any other bhagat. The Granth binds fifteen such figures from across the subcontinent, of several castes and two religions, into one book: Kabir the weaver, Ravidas the leather-worker, Baba Farid the Chishti shaikh. It is a scriptural map of devotional India rather than a walked one.
- Life routeNāmdev
Nāmdev spent his later years at Ghumān in Gurdaspur district, which is how sixty-one Marathi hymns came into a Punjabi scripture. The village keeps a gurdwara and an annual fair for a Maharashtrian calico-printer, and Pandharpūr keeps his step at the temple door. He is said to have asked to be buried on the first step of the Pandharpūr temple so that every pilgrim entering would tread on him, and the step is still shown.
On these journeys
Sources
Namdev; Guru Granth Sahib bhagat bani
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