ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>LUDHI&#256&#7750&#256 (30º-54'N, 75º-52'E)</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="LUDHIF"> <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">&#65279LUDHI&#256&#7750&#256 (30º-54'N, 75º-52'E), one of the major cities in the Punjab, claims a historical shrine, Gurdw&#257r&#257 Ga&#363 Gh&#257&#7789 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299 I, situated on the bank of the stream Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 N&#257l&#257. According to local tradition, Gur&#363 N&#257nak visited the site in the course of his travels during the early sixteenth century. The local chief, Naw&#257b Jal&#257l ud-D&#299n Lodh&#299, living in the fort near by, came to pay obeisance and besought the Gur&#363 to save the town from erosion by the River Sutlej. Gur&#363 N&#257nak told him to be symp&#257thetic and just towards his subjects and to leave the rest to God. Only a platform called Tha&#7771&#257 S&#257hib existed here to commemorate the Gur&#363's visit until a proper building was constructed in 1972-73. The present building is a small rectangular hall in front of a flat-roofed sanctum where two volumes of the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib are placed side by side. A <i>sarovar</i> has since been added by diverting the Bu&#7693&#7693h&#257 N&#257l&#257 and reclaiming part of what used to be its bed once upon a time. The Gurdw&#257r&#257 is affiliated to the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee and is managed by a local committee.</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>