Place · Sikh gurdwara · India
Khadur Sahib, Tarn Taran
Also known as Guru Angad Dev, Khadur Sahib, Tarn Taran
The gurudwara at Khadur Sahib in Tarn Taran district, Punjab — the seat of the second Guru Angad Dev (1504-1552), who was the Guru from 1539 (Guru Nanak's succession) to his death in 1552. Khadur Sahib is where Guru Angad established the first institutional Sikh centre, standardised the Gurmukhi script (modifying it from the earlier Landa script to serve as the written form of Panjabi for the Sikh scripture), and began the compilation of what would become the Adi Granth. The script standardisation at Khadur Sahib in the 1540s is one of the most consequential moments in the development of a Sikh textual tradition. The current gurdwara structure is 1800s with major 1960s additions. The annual Angad Dev Gurpurab festival each May draws over 100,000 Sikh pilgrims.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.504, 75.033
Connections (2)
- Guru successionGoindwāl Sāhib
Khadur Sahib and Goindwal are twenty kilometres apart on the Beas, and they are the second and third Guru's seats in succession. Guru Angad standardised the Gurmukhi script at Khadur and began the collection of Nanak's compositions; Guru Amar Das built the eighty-four-step baoli at Goindwal and made it the community's first designated pilgrimage place, with its own festival days — an institution being built, step by step, in one river valley.
- Based atGuru Angad Dev
Guru Angad Dev established the first institutional Sikh centre at Khadur Sahib in Tarn Taran district, Punjab, after his 1539 appointment as the second Guru by Guru Nanak. He standardised the Gurmukhi script here between the 1540s and 1552, formalised the langar institution and composed 62 shlokas incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib. He died at Khadur Sahib on 29 March 1552.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Khadur Sahib”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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