ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>KO&#7788 BH&#256&#298</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="KOl,BH*"> <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">&#65279KO&#7788 BH&#256&#298, village 7 km northeast of Gidda&#7771b&#257h&#257 (30º-12'N, 74º-39'E) in Far&#299dko&#7789 district of the Punjab, is named after Bh&#257&#299 Bhagat&#363, a devout Sikh who served the Fifth, Sixth and the Seventh Gur&#363s. When Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh (1664-1708) visited the village in 1706, two <i>b&#257&#7751&#299&#257s</i>, i.e. shopkeepers-cum-moneylenders, Ra&#7749g&#299 and Ghumm&#299 by name, served him with devotion and begged to be initiated into the order of the <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257. There are two <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i> commemorating the Gur&#363's visit-one inside the village where those two Sikhs resided, and the other on the eastern end of the village marking the site where Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh had camped. Both shrines are controlled by the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee through a local committee.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><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 Guru T&#299rath Sa&#7749grahi</i>. Kankhal, 1975<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>