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This Gurdwara honours the memory of Guru Nanak. At the time of Guru Nanak's visit, Bidar was the capital of the Bahmani kingdom. Since the establishment in the town of the great Madarsa by Mahmud Gawari in 1471-72, it had been a famous centre of Arabic learning in the Deccan. Guru Nanak stayed next to a monastery of Muslim ascetics on the outskirts of the town. These faqirs and their head, Pir Jalal-ud-Din, attracted by the holy Gurbani being sung to the accompaniment of Mardana's rebeck, came and made obeisance to the Guru. The monastery was built on a rock in an undulating barren tract, without any water in the vicinity. Tradition says that, at the supplication of Jalal-ud-Din, Guru Nanak lifted a stone and from underneath it a fountain of clear sweet water gushed forth. The spring, call

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