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<p class="C1">&#65279P&#256IL, village (now in ruins) near Ga&#7749g&#363v&#257l, 5 km north of Anandpur along Anandpur-Gur&#363 k&#257 Lahore road, has a shrine commemorating Gur&#363 Hargobind's visit in 1635. Here one of his favourite stallions, J&#257n Bh&#257&#299, wounded in the battle of Kart&#257rpur, finally collapsed and died. The Gurdw&#257r&#257 established during the 20th century is wrongly named Gurdw&#257r&#257 Suhel&#257 Gho&#7771&#257 after another horse which, according  to <i>Gurbilas Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>  and <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>, had been killed  in an earlier battle at Mehr&#257j. The two horses, J&#257n Bh&#257&#299 and Suhel&#257 (originally Dilb&#257<u>gh</u> and Gulb&#257<u>gh</u>, respectively), were being brought by a devotee from Afghanistan for Gur&#363 Hargobind, when they were snatched on the way by the governor of Lahore. Bh&#257&#299 Bidh&#299 Chand, a devoted Sikh, had recovered them one by one through strategem and brought them to Gur&#363 Hargobind. There are now two <i>gurdw&#257r&#257s</i> at what used to be the village of P&#257il.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 SUHEL&#256 GHO&#7770&#256 comprises a small room constructed in 1965, with a slightly bigger one added in 1982.</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;GURDW&#256R&#256 KH&#362H S&#256HIB, about 200 metres to the east of Gurdw&#257r&#257 Suhel&#257 S&#257hib, is close to an old well (kh&#363h, in Punjabi) got sunk by Gur&#363 Hargobind. The Shiroma&#7751&#299 Gurdw&#257r&#257 Parbandhak  Committee, which administers both the Gurdw&#257r&#257s, got the present building, a single square room, constructed in 1984.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Sohan Kav&#299, <i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>.  Amritsar,1968<BR>
<li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927- 35<BR>
<li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Gurnek Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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