ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>DAUDHAR</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="DAUDHAR"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279DAUDHAR, village 22 km southeast of Mog&#257 (30º-48'N, 75º-10'E) in Far&#299dko&#7789 district, claims a historical shrine called Gurdw&#257r&#257 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 Pahl&#299 te Chhev&#299&#7749 (first and sixth), commemorating the visits of Gur&#363 N&#257nak and Gur&#363 Hargobind, N&#257nak VI. Situated on a sandy mound amidst cultivated fields about one kilometre to the northwest of the village, the Gurdw&#257r&#257 is referred to in the <i>Gur&#363shabad Ratn&#257kar Moh&#257n Kosh</i> as Gobindga&#7771h, but is locally known as simply Ku&#7789&#299&#257, i. e. a cottage. It originally celebrated the name of Gur&#363 Hargobind who had halted here during one of his tours of the M&#257lv&#257, but, since the discovery, in 1914, of a copper plate and a seal during the diggings here, the name of Gur&#363 N&#257nak has also been associated with it. The copper plate had on one side the inscription, <i>N&#257nak Tap&#257 &#299h&#257&#7749 rame</i>. (N&#257nak, the ascetic, visited here), and on the other <i>Pahl&#299 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 Chhem&#299 &#256e</i>, (the First Lord (and) the Sixth came). The seal had a single word 'N&#257nak' on it. The plate and the seal are no longer there and were probably lost when the shrine was taken over from the Ud&#257s&#299 priests. The Gurdw&#257r&#257, a small modest building, is now maintained by the village <i>sa&#7749gat</i>.</p> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>