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<p class="C1">&#65279KART&#256RPUR, village on the right bank of the River R&#257v&#299 in the present Si&#257lko&#7789 district of Pakistan and usually called Kart&#257rpur R&#257v&#299 to distinguish it from another town of the same name in Jalandhar district of Indian Punjab, is sacred to Gur&#363 N&#257nak (1469-1539) to whom it owed its origin and who settled here at the end of his long peregrinations in India and abroad to preach the word of God. Gur&#363 N&#257nak spent the last two decades of his life with his wife and children at Kart&#257rpur which became the principal seat of the Sikh faith. It was here that Bh&#257&#299 Lahi&#7751&#257, later Gur&#363 A&#7749gad, came to receive instruction and it was here that, after nominating (Gur&#363) A&#7749gad his spiritual successor, he passed away on Ass&#363 <i>v&#257d&#299</i> 10, 1596 Bk/7 September 1539. Most of the habitation was washed away by the ever-encroaching R&#257v&#299 whereupon the Gur&#363's descendants and followers moved to &#7692er&#257 B&#257b&#257 N&#257nak, a new town they had raised on the other side of the river. The three-storeyed tall building of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Kart&#257rpur S&#257hib R&#257v&#299 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 I erected later at Kart&#257rpur can still be seen from the high embankment marking the Indo-Pakistan boundary north of &#7692er&#257 B&#257b&#257 N&#257nak, but it has been inaccessible to visitors and pilgrims from India since the partition of 1947.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><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"> V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, ed., <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1982<BR>
<li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gurdu&#257ri&#257&#7749</i>. Amritsar, n.d.<BR>
<li class="C1"> T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, <i>Sr&#299 Gur T&#299rath Sa&#7749grahi</i>. Amritsar, n.d.<BR>
<li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru N&#257nak 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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