ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>JHA&#7750&#7692&#256 R&#256MD&#256S</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="JHAF ,RMDS"> <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">&#65279JHA&#7750&#7692&#256 R&#256MD&#256S, popularly called Ramd&#257s, a village in Amritsar district of the Punjab, celebrates B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 of revered memory in the Sikh tradition. His son, Bh&#257&#299 Bh&#257n&#257, founded this village and named it after his own grandson, Jha&#7751&#7693&#257, and the family shifted here from their ancestral village of Katth&#363 Na&#7749gal. The long-lived B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 himself had spent most of his time at the feet of the Gur&#363s, from Gur&#363 N&#257nak to Gur&#363 Hargobind, but he would occasionally come to visit his family at Jha&#7751&#7693&#257 R&#257md&#257s. The last few months of his life were spent in this village. As the end came near, he longed to have a glimpse of the Gur&#363. Gur&#363 Hargobind did arrive at Jha&#7751&#7693&#257 R&#257md&#257s before B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 died, on Maghar <i>sud&#299</i> 4, 1688 Bk/16 November 1631. The Gur&#363 himself performed the last rites. Three <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i> now commemorate the Gur&#363's visit and the passing away of B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 BU&#7748GA S&#256HIB, 200 metres east of the village, marks the site where Gur&#363 Hargobind had encamped. From here he, according to the local tradition, went barefoot to see B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257..</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 SAM&#256DH&#256&#7748, about one kilometre northeast of Jha&#7751&#7693&#257 Ramd&#257s, was built on the site of the cremation of B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257. Gur&#363 Hargobind gave his shoulder to the bier, put the flame to the pyre and collected the ashes on the fourth day after the cremation.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 TAP ASTH&#256N B&#256B&#256 BU&#7692&#7692H&#256 J&#298, on the southern edge of the village, stands where the venerable family had once lived and where B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 had died. It is said that the Lahore troops sacked Jha&#7751&#7693&#257 R&#257md&#257s in 1824 and destroyed the house of B&#257b&#257 Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257's descendants. When Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh heard of this, he was filled with remorse. He then had this <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i> built on the site of the demolished house. The Gurdw&#257r&#257 stands on a raised plinth in the middle of a walled compound which is below the street level. It comprises a square sanctum, with a verandah all around. The floor is of white marble and the walls are lined with marble slabs. The interior surface of the walls as well as the ceiling is decorated with stucco work inset with reflecting glass pieces and painted artistically in gold, red and blue. The Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib is seated on a canopied throne of white marble.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Gurdw&#257r&#257 is managed by the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee. It owns 2,200 acres of land. Besides the daily prayers and the usual Sikh anniversaries, largely attended gatherings take place on the fifth day of the dark half of each lunar month.</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>