Place · gurdwara · Pakistan
Panjā Sāhib, Hasan Abdal
The gurdwara on the Taxila road at Hasan Abdal in Attock district, Pakistani Punjab, 48 kilometres northwest of Rawalpindi. Tradition holds that Guru Nanak visited the Sufi saint Baba Wali Qandhari here and that a boulder tumbled down the mountain bearing Nanak's handprint — now preserved in the gurdwara's sacred pool. The site lies within the old Gandharan landscape between Taxila (10 kilometres away) and the Khyber. The gurdwara, closed to Sikh pilgrims after Partition in 1947, was reopened for the Baisakhi festival each April in the 2000s and admits several thousand Indian Sikh pilgrims under coordinated government travel in a visa regime.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Janamsakhi tradition
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 33.818, 72.689
Connections (1)
- Life routeBhai Mardana
Panjā Sāhib's story turns on Mardana: he was refused water by the Sufi Walī Kandhārī on the hill, Nanak told him to lift a stone and a spring came, and the rock the Sufi rolled down in anger is said to have stopped against Nanak's palm. The handprint is what the gurdwara is built around.
On these journeys
Sources
Gurdwara Panja Sahib
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