Gurdwara Sri Dukh Nivaran Sahib, Patialaਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਦੁੱਖ ਨਿਵਾਰਨ ਸਾਹਿਬ, ਪਟਿਆਲਾGurdwara Sri Dukh Nivaran Sahib, Patiala

The site is a major Malwa anchor for Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji’s travels and a clear example of Pothi’s source-grading method: the visit can be presented historically, while claims about healing water must remain devotional tradition.

According to the Patiala entry in The Sikh Encyclopedia, an old handwritten document preserved at the shrine supports the local tradition that Bhag Ram of Lehal requested Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji to visit the village during the Guru’s stay at Saifabad.

The source gives Magh sudi 5, 1728 Bk / 24 January 1672 for the visit and remembers the Guru sitting beneath a banyan tree beside a pond. The tradition says a serious sickness affecting the village subsided after the visit.

The spot came to be called Dukh Nivaran. Later devotees developed a strong belief in the sarovar water’s healing qualities. Pothi should preserve that belief as religious tradition without making medical claims.

A memorial garden existed under the Patiala rulers. The reference source records construction fundraising beginning in 1930 and later administrative transfer through Patiala/PEPSU institutions to the SGPC.

Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji is remembered as halting at Lehal, meeting the local sangat and sitting by a pond beneath a banyan tree. The visit became the foundation of the Dukh Nivaran shrine tradition.

Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji; Bhag Ram of Lehal; Patiala rulers and later Sikh managing institutions; Lehal/Patiala sangat.

• Historic banyan-tree site memorial within the larger complex.

• Large sarovar associated with the later Dukh Nivaran devotional tradition.

• Major congregational building and langar facilities developed long after the Guru-period visit.

The Guru-period association belongs to the Lehal landscape, tree and pond. The large present gurdwara complex is later, with major construction developing in the twentieth century.

• Tradition: 24 Jan 1672: Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji visits Lehal and rests near the pond under a banyan tree. • 18th-19th centuries: Patiala rulers preserve the site as a memorial landscape; records mention the Guru’s garden / Nihang well. • 1930 onward: Organized fundraising and gurdwara construction begin. • 20th century: Management passes through Patiala/PEPSU institutions and ultimately to the SGPC. • Present: Dukh Nivaran Sahib remains an active major Patiala pilgrimage centre.

• HG-073 - Bahadurgarh / Saifabad Patshahi Nauvin (future Batch 24 full entry)

• Future Patiala route layer: Motibagh Sahib should be checked as a distinct site before ID assignment

• Guru Tegh Bahadur Sakhi collection: Malwa travels and teaching

• Medical-safety rule: sarovar healing belief is devotional tradition only.

Visitors see a large active complex with the sarovar, congregational spaces and a memorial marking the older Guru-associated spot. Pothi should separate the historical visit from later healing beliefs in both text and UI.

• Use “strong Sikh historical tradition,” not “historically documented” for the exact visit narrative unless the old manuscript itself is independently examined.

• Do not state that bathing in or drinking sarovar water cures disease. The historical article may state that devotees hold this belief.

• The present building history is twentieth-century and later; it must not be backdated to the seventeenth century.