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<p class="C1">&#65279EMIN&#256B&#256D (32º-2'N, 74º-16'E), an ancient town in Gujr&#257&#7749w&#257l&#257 district of Pakistan, is sacred to Gur&#363 N&#257nak (1469-1539) in whose day it was called Sayyidpur. According to <i>Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299,</i> after leaving Sult&#257npur and before setting out on his long travels, Gur&#363 N&#257nak, accompanied by Bh&#257&#299 Mard&#257n&#257, first visited Emin&#257b&#257d where Bh&#257&#299 L&#257lo, a carpenter by profession, became his Sikh. A hymn of Gur&#363 N&#257nak in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib suggests that he was in Emin&#257b&#257d when the town was sacked by B&#257bar in 1521. Janam S&#257kh&#299s also mention that during the attack by the Mu<u>gh</u>al force the Gur&#363 was held in prison and given a stonemill to ply. Emin&#257b&#257d came under Sikh rule when Sard&#257r Cha&#7771hat Si&#7749gh Sukkarchakk&#299&#257 occupied it during the 1760's.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	The town claimed historical shrines which were administered by the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee since 28 February 1922 until 1947.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 RO&#7770&#298 S&#256HIB, half a kilometer northwest of the town, marks the site where, according to tradition, Gur&#363 N&#257nak after the destruction of the town had stayed with Bh&#257&#299 L&#257lo. Here the Gur&#363 had to sit and lie on a hard bed of small stones (<i>ro&#7771&#299</i> in Punjabi) as alluded to in Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s, <i>V&#257r&#257&#7749</i>, I. 24. This was the premier <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i> of the town. The multi-storeyed building was set on fire by a mob of zealots soon after the partition of the Punjab on 15 August 1947.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 CHAKK&#298 S&#256HIB, inside the town, preserves as a relic a stonemill which was believed to be the one which Gur&#363 N&#257nak was made to ply during his brief period of captivity.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 KH&#362H&#298 BH&#256&#298 L&#256LO, also inside the town, marked the house and the well (<i>kh&#363h&#299,</i> in Punjabi) belonging to Bh&#257&#299 L&#257lo. Here Gur&#363 N&#257nak had first met him.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Gur T&#299rath Sa&#7749grahi</i>. Amritsar, n.d.<BR>
<li class="C1"> &#7788h&#257kar Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gurdu&#257re Darshan</i>, Amritsar, 1923<BR>
<li class="C1"> Kohl&#299, Surindar Si&#7749gh, ed., <i>Janams&#257kh&#299 Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257,</i> Chandigarh, 1975<BR>
<li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Nanak and Origins of the Sikh Faith,</i> Bombay, 1969<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR>
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