The first ever three-day International Sikh Conclave held at SK Memorial Hall in Patna.
World will celebrate the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singhji this year. He was the 10th Sikh guru, poet, warrior. He is known to the world as the warrior-saint. He was the only son of Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji. He was born to Mata Gujri Ji. Birth name of Guru Ji was Gobind Rai. He was received Guruship at the age of nine after the martyrdom of his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Ji at Delhi.
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Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 in Patna on December 22. His birth place is in the eastern part of Patna known as Patna Sahib.Guru Nanak Dev University (Amritsar), head of department of Hindi, H S Bedi said, “A Frenchman described Guru Gobind Singh as the best poet of Braj language of the ‘riti kaal’ period. Guruji’s love of Hindi is proved by the fact that the 50 poets whom he patronised translated the Bhagwad Gita and other religious books (from Sanskrit) to Hindi”.
The Bihar government will start a Sikh circuit on lines of Buddhist circuit to draw more foreign tourists.