PM greets people on Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Ramdas Ji

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has greeted the people on the occasion of the Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Ramdas Ji.

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Key-Points

Guru Ram Das (1534 – 1581) was the fourth of the ten Gurus of Sikhism.

His birth name was Jetha. Guru Ram Das became the Guru of Sikhism in 1574 and served as the Sikh leader until his death in 1581.

He appointed his own son as his successor, and unlike the first four Gurus who were not related through descent, the fifth through tenth Sikh Gurus were the direct descendants of Ram Das.

Guru Ram Das is credited with founding the holy city of Amritsar in the Sikh tradition.

He shifted his official base to lands identified by Guru Amar Das as Guru-ka-Chak. This newly founded town was eponymous Ramdaspur, later to evolve and get renamed as Amritsar.