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<p class="C1">&#65279TULAMB&#256, commonly pronounced Talumbh&#257, an ancient site now also known as Ma<u>kh</u>d&#363mpur, a rail/road station along the Lahore-Mult&#257n highway in Mult&#257n district of Pakistan, was where Gur&#363 N&#257nak met Shai<u>kh</u> Sajjan, who, according to the Janam S&#257kh&#299 tradition, was a <i>thug</i> living in apparent piety. Sajjan maintained a mosque as well as a temple for use by Muslim and Hindu travellers and seemed to welcome anyone for a night's lodging and meal. Many unsuspecting wayfarers gratefully accepted his hospitality and fell into the trap laid out by Sajjan, who to rob them of their goods strangulated them during the night. As Gur&#363 N&#257nak travelling through southwest Punjab once arrived at his house on the highway, he welcomed him with his customary courtesy, but all cunning thoughts soon vanished from his heart. He bowed at the Gur&#363's feet and turned a disciple, giving away all the goods sinfully gathered. Sajjan converted his house into a <i>dharams&#257l&#257</i>, i.e, a place of religious assembly, and became a zealous disseminator of Gur&#363 N&#257nak&#8217s teaching. Later, Bh&#257&#299 Jodh, a Sikh of the time of Gur&#363 Har R&#257i (1630-61), who preached the Sikh faith in this area, made Tulamb&#257 his centre. His descendants raised a <i>gurdw&#257r&#257</i> here in 1913, but it had to be abandoned during the1947 exodus caused by partition.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i> [Reprint]. Patiala, 1970<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"> V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, ed., <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>. Amritsar, 1971<BR>
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