ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>GURDITT&#256 BH&#256&#298 (1625-1675)</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="GURDITT,BH*,Person,Person"> <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">&#65279GURDITT&#256, BH&#256&#298 (1625-1675), son of Bh&#257&#299 Jha&#7751&#7693&#257, was a descendant of the venerable B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257. He was one of those who, after the death of Gur&#363 Har Krishan at Delhi in 1664, were especially summoned to Bak&#257l&#257 for the anointment of Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur. The privilege of performing this ceremony had by tradition belonged to B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257's house. On 11 August 1664, Bh&#257&#299 Gurditt&#257, presented to Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur the spiritual regalia and placed the saffron mark on his forehead. He planted, on 19 June 1665, the ceremonial sapling at the M&#257khov&#257l mound near K&#299ratpur in the &#346iv&#257lik foothills, where the Gur&#363 founded a new habitation, Chakk N&#257nak&#299, later renamed Anandpur. It is not certain whether he accompanied the Gur&#363 during his travel to the east, but, according to <i>S&#257kh&#299 Poth&#299</i>, he was in attendance on him during his journey through the M&#257lv&#257 country, probably in 1672-74. In 1675, when Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur decided to proceed to Delhi to court martyrdom, Bh&#257&#299 Gurditt&#257 was called upon to perform the accession ceremony, installing Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh as the Tenth Gur&#363 of the Sikhs. The ceremony took place on 8 July 1675. Three days later Bh&#257&#299 Gurditt&#257 also set out for Delhi. He was not arrested on the way, and reached Delhi where he witnessed the martyrdom of Gur&#363 Te<u>gh</u> Bah&#257dur's Sikhs on 11 November 1675. He himself discarded his body in a divine passion the following day, 12 November 1675. According to <i>Gur&#363 k&#299&#257&#7749 S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749</i>, he was cremated by the Sikhs of Delhi at Bhogal, on the bank of the River Yamun&#257.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>M&#257lv&#257 Desh Ra&#7789an d&#299 Sakh&#299 Poth&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1968<BR> <li class="C1"> Padam, Pi&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, and Gi&#257n&#299 Garj&#257 Si&#7749gh, eds., <i>Gur&#363 k&#299&#257&#7749 S&#257kh&#299&#257&#7749</i>. Patiala, 1986<BR> <li class="C1"> Kuir Si&#7749gh, <i>Gurbil&#257s P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 10</i>. Patiala, 1968<BR> <li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Tegh Bahadur</i>. Delhi, 1982<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">A. C. Banerjee<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>