Place · Sikh takht gurdwara · India
Hazūr Sāhib, Nanded
The gurdwara at Nanded, Maharashtra, on the Godavari, where Guru Gobind Singh died on 7 October 1708 from wounds inflicted by Pathan assassins sent by the Mughal governor of Sirhind. On his deathbed he conferred the Guruship on the Guru Granth Sahib itself — the moment the written scripture replaced the living Guru in Sikhism. One of the Five Takhts of Sikhism and the southernmost of them. The present gurdwara was built in 1832-37 by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The Dasam Granth, the collection of Guru Gobind Singh's own compositions, was finalised here and is kept at the Takht alongside the Granth.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Tradition
- Sikh tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 19.150, 77.320
Connections (6)
- Scripture as guruHarmandir Sāhib (Golden Temple)
At Nanded in 1708, dying of a wound, Guru Gobind Singh ended the line of human Gurus by conferring guruship on the scripture. That single decision is why the book at Amritsar is treated as a living person — put to bed at night, woken at dawn, carried under a canopy with an attendant waving a whisk over it. A Deccan town eighteen hundred kilometres from Punjab holds the moment that defines Sikh practice everywhere.
- Takht set withHarmandir Sāhib (Golden Temple)
Hazur Sahib at Nanded in Maharashtra is where the tenth Guru died and where the Granth became Guru; Amritsar is where that book is housed at the centre of Sikh devotional life. The five Takhts together run from Amritsar and Anandpur in Punjab to Patna in Bihar and Nanded in the Deccan, and the Nanded community — Punjabi-speaking, settled there for three centuries — is one of the oldest Sikh diasporas.
- Scripture as guruGuru Gobind Singh
At Nanded in 1708, dying of a wound, Gobind Singh ended the line of human Gurus by conferring the office on the Granth itself. Authority passed from a person to a text, which is why the book is treated as a living Guru — put to bed at night, woken in the morning, and never argued over as an object.
- Life routeBanda Singh Bahadur
Banda was an ascetic at Nanded when Gobind Singh met him in 1708 and sent him north with five arrows and letters of authority. Within two years he had taken Sirhind, struck coin in the Gurus' names and abolished zamīndāri in the country he held. For a few years in the eastern Punjab the peasant cultivator held his land outright, which is why the episode is read as the first Sikh state rather than as a raid.
- Companion in the same setPatna Sāhib
Patna and Nanded are the tenth Guru's birth and death, on the Ganga and the Godāvari, two thousand kilometres apart and neither in Punjab. The takht scheme spans three linguistic regions because the Gurus' own lives did. Both shrines keep practices the Punjab does not — Patna its eastern sangat traditions, Nanded its Deccan forms including arms displayed and a distinct order of service.
- Site withinRenuka, Nanded
Renuka, Nanded sits inside Hazūr Sāhib, Nanded and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
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Sources
Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded
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