Paonta Sahib

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Location of Paonta Sahib

Paonta Sahib (पांवटा साहब) is a town of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh in India.

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Location

Paonta Sahib is located in the south of Sirmaur district, on National Highway 7, near the border of Dehradun district.

Origin

Its original name was Paontika (पाँवटिका). Paon (पाँव) in Hindi means "feet", and tika (टिका) in Hindi means "became stable". It is believed that Guru Gobind Singh and his horse stopped at this place and he decided to stay here.

History

Paonta Sahib is an important place of worship for Sikhs, hosting a large Gurdwara named Gurudwara Paonta Sahib, on the banks of the river Yamuna. The river is the boundary between the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The town was founded by Sikh Guru Guru Gobind Singh.[1] The Gurudwara Paonta Sahib has linkages to the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh and the Sikh leader Banda Singh Bahadur. He lived here for four and a half years, having never stayed so long at any other place in his entire life. He wrote many Sikh religious books here and then went to Anandpur Sahib to establish the Khalsa Panth. The Gurudwara also houses a museum which contains a lot of antiques and weapons used by Guru Gobind Singh during his stay.

पांवटा साहब

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[2] ने लेख किया है ... पांवटा साहब (AS, p.540), जिला देहारादून, (AS, p.540) देहरादून से 30 मील पश्चिम की ओर है इस गुरुद्वारे की स्थापना 1684 ई. में गुरु गोविंदसिंह ने की थी. यह स्थान अपनी प्राकृतिक शौभा के लिए प्रख्यात है.

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