Guru Arjan Dev Shaheedi Purab Observance The martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, put to death at Lahore in 1606 on the orders of Jahangir.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Guru Arjan Dev Shaheedi Purab
- हिन्दी
- गुरु अर्जन देव शहीदी दिवस
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ ਦਿਹਾੜਾ
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Looking for the calendar this day belongs to
This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru, put to death at Lahore in 1606 on the orders of Jahangir. He compiled the Adi Granth and built the Harmandir Sahib, and he is held to have been made to sit on a heated plate with hot sand poured over him for days before he was taken to the Ravi. Chhabeels, stalls of sweetened cold water and milk, are set out at the roadside for anyone who passes, through the hottest days of June.
- Deity
- Guru Arjan Dev
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
Harh 2 of the fixed Nanakshahi calendar, the sixteenth of June; the diwan and the chhabeels run through the day.
The fast
No fast is kept; the Sikh tradition sets no store by fasting. The langar runs through the day and everyone eats it sitting in the same rows, and karah prasad is given out at the end of the diwan.
Where the regions differ
The gurdwaras of the Punjab, Delhi, the historic takhts and the diaspora keep the gurpurabs alike, with an akhand path over the two days before and a nagar kirtan behind the panj pyare. The Nanakshahi calendar of 2003 fixed several of these to Gregorian dates and the revert of 2010 put some of them back on the Bikrami moon, so the date can differ between the SGPC calendar and a local sangat; traditions vary, and the gurdwara notice is the one to follow.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.