''Sarinh'' ( pa, ਸਰੀਂਹ; also spelled as Sarih) is an old and noted village in the
Nakodar
Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. Surrounding vill ...
tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administ ...
of
Jalandhar district
Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. District headquarters is Jalandhar city.
Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent districts J ...
in
Punjab, India
Punjab (; ) is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and ...
.
The marriage party of the fifth
Sikh guru
The Sikh gurus ( Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the found ...
,
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Arjan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ, pronunciation: ; 15 April 1563 – 30 May 1606) was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of t ...
stayed here for a while on their way back home.
Geography
''Sarinh'' or ''Sarih'', approximately centered at ,
Google Maps
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is located on the
Nakodar
Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. Surrounding vill ...
-
Phagwara
Phagwara is a city and municipal corporation in Kapurthala district in Punjab, India. It lies on National Highway 44 and located 40 kilometres from Kapurthala, the district headquarter, away from Chandigarh, away from Jalandhar and from N ...
road.
Shankar Shankar may refer to:
People
* Shankar (name), including a list of people with the name
* Sankar (writer) (Mani Shankar Mukherjee), Bengali writer
* L. Shankar, Indian violinist
*S. Shankar, Indian film director commonly credited as Shankar
* San ...
is the nearest railway station (2 km).
Tahli and
Shekhan Khurd are the surrounding villages.
History
The village is a part of an event of the
Sikh history as the marriage party of the fifth
Sikh guru
The Sikh gurus ( Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the found ...
,
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Arjan (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ, pronunciation: ; 15 April 1563 – 30 May 1606) was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of t ...
, stayed here for a while on their way back home, after married to ''Mata Ganga Ji''.
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See also
* Sarinh, Ludhiana
* Buttar Sarinh
References
Villages in Jalandhar district
Villages in Nakodar tehsil
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