ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>M&#256CHH&#298V&#256&#7770&#256 (30º-55'N, 76º-12'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="MCHH*VZ"> <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">&#65279M&#256CHH&#298V&#256&#7770&#256 (30º-55'N, 76º-12'E), now a small town in Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257 district, figures prominently in the last phase of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's life. As the Gur&#363 arrived here after leaving Chamkaur on the night of 7 December 1705, he stopped first in a garden outside the village. Here Bh&#257&#299 M&#257n Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 Day&#257 Si&#7749gh and Bh&#257&#299 Dharam Si&#7749gh, who had been separated from him when he was leaving Chamkaur, re-joined him. He later moved to the house of Gul&#257b&#257, the <i>masand </i>, inside the village. From here the brothers <u>Gh</u>an&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n and Nab&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n, two Ruh&#299l&#257 P&#257&#7789h&#257ns, who as horse dealers had previously visited Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh at Anandpur, assisted him to travel further west disguised as Muslim divines. There are three <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i> to commemorate these events.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 CHARAN KAVAL S&#256HIB marks the site of the garden where Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh stopped first and where Bh&#257&#299 M&#257n Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299 Day&#257 Si&#7749gh and Bh&#257&#299 Dharam Si&#7749gh found him asleep after an arduous journey through the thorny forest. The central building of this shrine has a square hall on the ground floor with a square sanctum in the centre where Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib is seated. The domed pavilion over the sanctum on the second floor contains a large portrait of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh in a sleeping posture. There are also decorative domed pavilions on this floor, square at the corners and rectangular at mid-points of the walls. A rectangular <i>sarovar</i>, west of the Gurdw&#257r&#257, was constructed during the 1970's. It receives its water supply from an old well believed to be the same as watered the garden at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The Gurdw&#257r&#257 is controlled by the Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak Committee through a local committee which also manages Gurdw&#257r&#257 Chub&#257r&#257 S&#257hib inside the town. A big fair is held in the third week of December every year to commemorate Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's stay in M&#257chh&#299v&#257&#7771&#257.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 CHUB&#256R&#256 S&#256HIB is inside the town on the site where the house of Gul&#257b&#257 Masand once stood. <i>Chub&#257r&#257</i> means a room on the first floor. It was in a first-floor room in Gul&#257b&#257's house that Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh had put up. The present building comprises a square hall with the sanctum in the centre. The hall is in a square walled compound. For administration, the shrine is affiliated to Gurdw&#257r&#257 Charan Kaval.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 UCHCH D&#256 P&#298R. Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh had left M&#257chh&#299v&#257&#7771&#257 disguised as a Muslim divine, carried in a palanquin and declared by <u>Gh</u>an&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n and Nab&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n to be the P&#299r of Uchch, an old seat of Muslim saints in southwest Punjab.Gurdw&#257r&#257 Uchch da P&#299r was established after 1947 in the private house formerly belonging to the descendants of <u>Gh</u>an&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n and Nab&#299 <u>Kh</u>&#257n. The Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib is seated in a small rectangular room. A double-storeyed cell in this house is also being maintained in memory of Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh. It is believed that he stayed here for a short while after shifting from Gul&#257b&#257's house.</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"> Narotam, 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>