Place · gurdwara · India
Nanak Jhira, Bidar
The gurdwara at Bidar in Karnataka, 715 kilometres south of Amritsar, commemorating Guru Nanak's southern udasi during which tradition says he produced a stream of fresh water (the 'Nanak Jhira', Nanak's spring) in a dry region by breaking a rock with his toe. The gurdwara at the spring is 15 kilometres from the Bahmani-dynasty capital of Bidar (14th-16th c.) and 110 kilometres from the Chishti dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz at Gulbarga, placing the Sikh node directly adjacent to two older Deccan sacred nodes — one Islamic political, one Sufi devotional. The spring still runs year-round and feeds the kitchen's langar.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Janamsakhi tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 17.920, 77.510
Connections (2)
- Life routeGuru Nanak
Nanak Jhira at Bidar commemorates the southern udāsi with a spring said to have come out of the rock at Nanak's touch. It is one of the largest gurdwaras in the Deccan, built around a water-source story in a region with no Punjabi community to sustain it. Bidar was a Bahmani capital with a Persianate court and its own Sufi shrines, so the southern journey's one great gurdwara stands in a town whose history is almost entirely Islamic.
- Site withinBidar
Nanak Jhira, Bidar sits inside Bidar 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
Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib, Bidar
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