05-01-2006, 12:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2006, 12:12 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(24) Bhai Mani Singh's (Diwan of Guru Gobind Singh, late 17th/early 18th century) Pothi-Janm Sakhi vide edition V.S. 1947/1890 AD, Lahore, p. 213) provides clear testimony to this pilgrimage. Another important Janm Sakhi entitled Guru Nanak Bansh Prakash by Baba Sukh Wasi Ram Bedi written in 1886 VS/1829 AD offers details (vide Chhand # 1000-1001) about Guru Nanak's visit to Ayodhya in the company of Mardana, a bath in the Sarayu river and finally, homage to Rama (Darshan Ram Nihar). Similarly, Janm Sakhi, known as Bhai Bala Wali Janm Sakhi edited in 1940 VS/1883 AD accounts for Guru Nanak Dev's pilgrimage to Awadhpuri (Ayodhya) on the ground that Guru Nanak identified this city (Nagri) with Sri Ramachandraji, the Avtar. Also Rajendra Singh, Sikh Itihas Mein Sri Ram Janmabhoomi.
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There is even a Gurudwara in Ayodhya commemorating his visit to Ayodhya, I think its called "Brahmakund Gurudwara".
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The historian Harsh Narain in his book The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources, writes: "Guru Nanak, according to Bhai Man Singh's Pothi Janam Sakhi, said to have been composed in 1787 Anno Vikrami/1730 A.D., visited Ayodhya and said to his Muslim disciple Mardana: 'Mardania! eh Ajudhia nagari Sri Ramachandraji ki hai. So, chal, iska darsan kari'e. Translation: 'Mardana! this Ayodhya city belongs to Sri Ramachandra Ji. So let us have its darsana.' "
This indicates that Nanak visited Ayodhya shortly before the destruction of the Rama temple by Babar. Another work by Baba Sukhbasi Ram gives a similar account, again suggesting that Nanak visited Ayodyha before the temple was destroyed by his contemporary, the Mughal invader Babar. Muslim sources also give a similar account.
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Bhai Mani Singh was a direct disciple of the 10th Guru and wrote his Janam Sakhi about 22 years after Guru Govind Singh's death, Bhai Mani Singh himself was later tortured to death by the Mughal rulers for refusing to convert to Islam.
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There is even a Gurudwara in Ayodhya commemorating his visit to Ayodhya, I think its called "Brahmakund Gurudwara".
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The historian Harsh Narain in his book The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources, writes: "Guru Nanak, according to Bhai Man Singh's Pothi Janam Sakhi, said to have been composed in 1787 Anno Vikrami/1730 A.D., visited Ayodhya and said to his Muslim disciple Mardana: 'Mardania! eh Ajudhia nagari Sri Ramachandraji ki hai. So, chal, iska darsan kari'e. Translation: 'Mardana! this Ayodhya city belongs to Sri Ramachandra Ji. So let us have its darsana.' "
This indicates that Nanak visited Ayodhya shortly before the destruction of the Rama temple by Babar. Another work by Baba Sukhbasi Ram gives a similar account, again suggesting that Nanak visited Ayodyha before the temple was destroyed by his contemporary, the Mughal invader Babar. Muslim sources also give a similar account.
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0403/188.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bhai Mani Singh was a direct disciple of the 10th Guru and wrote his Janam Sakhi about 22 years after Guru Govind Singh's death, Bhai Mani Singh himself was later tortured to death by the Mughal rulers for refusing to convert to Islam.