Joti Jot of Guru Hargobind · Joti Jot Divas Guru Hargobind

Culture of origin: Sikh · Cultural

Holiday sources: Sikhism

Guru Hargobind died at Kiratpur, on the banks of the Sutlej, in 1644: on Chet sudi 5 of the Bikrami year 1701, March 3, by the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, while Wikipedia gives February 28. He had passed over his eldest grandson, Dhir Mal, to whom the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan had given land grants, and named Dhir Mal's younger brother, Har Rai, as his successor. Hargobind had become Guru after his father Guru Arjan's execution in 1606 and wore two swords, of spiritual and of temporal authority. The SGPC keeps the day on Chet sudi 5.