Gurdwara Tap Asthan Mai Bhago
There is another Gurdwara at Bidar. This is known as Gurdwara Tap Asthan Mai Bhago. This Gurdwara
is situated 11 kilometres from Bidar along the Bidar-Barauli-Auradh road. Mai Bhago, the surviving heroine
of the battle of Muktsar, who had left Nanded after the passing of Guru Gobind Singh ended up settling near
the important historic Gurdwara Nanak Jhira where she spent the rest of her saintly life at Jinwada in a house
just outside the walls of the fortress of Bala Rao and Rustam Rao, two Maratha chiefs in whose release from
captivity Guru Gobind Singh had been instrumental. This
house was maintained as a holy place after her death.
When Gurdwara Nanak Jhira was occupied by Sikhs in
1948, they also acquired this house of Mai Bhago from
its last caretaker, Gulab Rao, and set up “Gurdwara Tap
Asthan Mai Bhago” – “Shrine of the place of meditation
of Mai Bhago”. It was a simple small room with a
verandah in front maintained by the managing committee
of Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib, Bidar. It also need to be
mentioned here that Bhai Sahib Singh, one of the Panj
Piaras (five beloved of Guru Gobind Singh), hailed from
Bidar where he was once a barber. He was the son of
Gurunarayana and Ankamma from Bidar. Thus, the city
of Bidar has become a popular Sikh pilgrimage centre.
