Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheedi Purab Observance The martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru, beheaded at Chandni Chowk in Delhi in 1675 for refusing to convert and for standing up for the right of the Kashmiri Pandits to their own faith, which was not his.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheedi Purab
- हिन्दी
- गुरु तेग बहादुर शहीदी दिवस
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- ਗੁਰੂ ਤੇਗ ਬਹਾਦਰ 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
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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 Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru, beheaded at Chandni Chowk in Delhi in 1675 for refusing to convert and for standing up for the right of the Kashmiri Pandits to their own faith, which was not his. Gurdwara Sis Ganj stands where he was killed and Rakab Ganj where his body was cremated, and both keep the day with a diwan and shabad kirtan. His son Gobind Rai, nine years old, became the tenth Guru.
- Deity
- Guru Tegh Bahadur
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
Maghar 11 of the fixed Nanakshahi calendar, the twenty-fourth of November; the diwan is held at Sis Ganj and at the local gurdwara 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.