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| Pakistan lawmakers bring miracle pitcher for Sikhs in India | | | Wagah (Punjab), Aug 28: A team of Pakistani lawmakers has arrived here with a miracle pitcher, believed to have belonged to Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and last Guru of the Sikhs.
Rai Aziz Ullah Khan, the ninth heir of the priceless possession, and his team have brought the `Ganga Sagar' pitcher to Punjab to enable Sikh devotees to pay their respects to it.
Khan, a lawmaker settled in Islamabad, said he hoped relations between Pakistan and India would improve in due course of time, especially in the wake of the progress being made through the composite dialogue process.
This is the second time that Khan has brought the highly revered artefact to India for Sikhs to pay homage. The pitcher will be kept in the Thakt Damdama Sahib for three days.
‘Ganga Sagar’ is a metal urn with holes running along its diameter and at its base. Devotees believe that Guru, Gobind Singh gave the urn divine powers when he drank milk without a single drop spilling from it in 1705.
The Guru gifted the pitcher to a former ruler of Raikot, now in Pakistan, who had helped and honoured him in a time of distress.
The descendants of the Rajkot ruler have since preserved this priceless heritage, which otherwise rests permanently in a bank locker in England. |
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