Hazur Sahib, Nanded
Where Guru Gobind Singh died in 1708, after naming the Guru Granth Sahib as Guru. Also where he met Banda Singh. Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib.
Nanded, on the Godavari in Maharashtra, is where Guru Gobind Singh spent the last weeks of his life in 1708. Here he met the ascetic Madho Das, who became Banda Singh Bahadur, and sent him north.
Here the Guru was stabbed by an assassin, and before his death in October 1708 he declared that there would be no more human Gurus, and that the Guru Granth Sahib would be the eternal Guru. Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, one of the five Takhts, stands where he was cremated. Ranjit Singh had it built in the 1830s.
Hazur Sahib keeps its own distinctive traditions, and Nanded has a long-settled Sikh community descended from the Guru's companions.
People
Tenth Guru, warrior and poet. Created the Khalsa in 1699, fought a long war with the Mughals and hill rajas, lost his four sons and mother, and named the Guru Granth Sahib as the final Guru.
The scripture of the Sikhs and their eternal, living Guru: 1,430 pages of hymns by six Gurus and some thirty other saints, set in 31 ragas.
Aurangzeb's son, whom Guru Gobind Singh helped in the succession war of 1707 and travelled with to the Deccan. He later led the campaign against Banda Singh.
Ascetic turned general. Sent north by Guru Gobind Singh in 1708, he took Sirhind, set up the first Sikh state, gave land to those who tilled it and was executed in Delhi in 1716.
Shamed forty deserters into returning to the Guru, led them into battle at Muktsar and survived to serve as one of his bodyguards.
Artifacts
On the timeline
The five Takhts
The seats of Sikh authority- 1Akal Takht Amritsar
Built by Guru Hargobind, 1606: the throne of the Timeless, seat of temporal authority
- 2Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib Anandpur
Where Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa, 1699
- 3Takht Sri Damdama Sahib Talwandi Sabo
Where he completed the Guru Granth Sahib, 1706; a Takht since 1966
- 4Takht Sri Patna Sahib Patna
Birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh, 1666
- 5Takht Sri Hazur Sahib Nanded
Where he passed the Guruship to the Guru Granth Sahib and died, 1708