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<p class="C1">&#65279DHI&#256N SI&#7748GH, resident of the village of M&#257jr&#299 near Chamkaur in present-day Ropa&#7771 district of the Punjab, was a devoted Sikh of the time of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh (1666-1708). According to <i>Gur Ratan M&#257l</i> (<i>Sau S&#257kh&#299</i>), Bishambhar D&#257s, a shopkeeper and a Sikh devotee of Ujjain in Central India, once sent his son, Har Gop&#257l, to the Punjab with an offering of six hundred rupees to be made over to Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh at Anandpur. Har Gop&#257l made the offering and the Gur&#363 gave him some <i>ka&#7771&#257hpras&#257d</i> or consecrated food to be delivered to his father along with his message blessing him. Har Gop&#257l, on his way back, stayed with Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh and expressed to the latter his doubt about the Gur&#363's justice in giving a handful of food and a word of blessing in return for six hundred rupees. Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh told him that if he considered the blessing a poor return on his money, he could sell it to him (Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh) at a profit. Har Gop&#257l agreed and Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh bought the blessing for six hundred and five rupees. Har Gop&#257l resumed his homeward journey and investing his money on the way added to it a large profit. But when he reached home and narrated his experience and his deal, his father chided him for his folly. Bishambhar D&#257s with his son came to Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh and expressing his regrets over his son's error, begged for his intercession in obtaining the Gur&#363's pardon. Dhi&#257n Si&#7749gh took them to Anandpur where the Gur&#363 graciously pardoned Har Gop&#257l and instructed them in the virtue of <i>ard&#257s</i> or prayer and in the Sikh code of ethics.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">Nayyar, Gurbachan Si&#7749gh, ed. , <i>Gur Ratan M&#257l arth&#257t Sau S&#257kh&#299</i>. Patiala, 1985<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Padam<br></p><BR>
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