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'''Lehal''', now [[Patiala]], was the famous village because of the visit by Sikhs' ninth Guru (Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib ji) but now this village is a part of [[Patiala]] city.<ref name=pf>{{cite web|url=http://patialaforever.com/?p=27|title=History|author=|date=|work=|publisher=www.patialaforever.com|accessdate=14 Nov 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==History==

The Gurudwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib is situated in what used to be the village of Lehal, now Patiala city.<ref name=yi>{{cite web|url=http://www.youngintach.org/heritage-maps-icon-some-cities-patiala.asp|title=Gurudwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib|author=|date=|work=|publisher=www.youngintach.org|accessdate=14 Nov 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126092910/http://www.youngintach.org/heritage-maps-icon-some-cities-patiala.asp|archive-date=26 November 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to local tradition, supported by an old handwritten document preserved in the Gurudwara, Bhag Ram, a Jhivar of Lehal, waited upon Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji during his sojourn at Saifabad (now Bahadurgarh) and made a request that he might be pleased to visit and bless his village so that its in inhabitants could be rid of a serious and mysterious sickness which had seen their bane for a long time. The Guru visited Lehal on Magh Sudi 5, Samat 1728 Bikrami being 24 January 1672<ref name=yi/> and stayed under a banyan tree of a pond. The sickness in the village subsided. The side where Guru Tegh Bahadur had sat came to be known as Dukh Nivaran, literally meaning eradicator of suffering.<ref name=pf/> The Gurudwara when completed passed under the administrative control of the Patiala state government. But it eventually transferred to the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee.<ref name=yi/>

==Geography==

Patiala is one of the twenty districts of [[Punjab, India]]. [[Patiala District]] lies between 29 49’ and 30 47’ north latitude, 75 58’ and 76 54' east longitude, in the southeast part of the state. It is located in Payal Tehsil of Ludhiana district in Punjab, India, about 18 kilometres away from sub-district headquarter of Payal and 38 kilometres from the district headquarter of Ludhiana.

==Naming as Patiala==

Baba Ala Singh (1691–1765) a [[Sikh]] chieftain from village Rampura Phul of [[Bathinda District]], with his army of young brave men migrated to [[Barnala]] where Baba Ala Singh in 1722 set up his new state. Later Baba Ala Singh moved to a small village of [[Lehal]] where he built a new city on the village naming it as [[Patiala]], he laid the foundations of a steady and stable state known as Phulkian Dynasty south to [[Sirhind]]. In and around Patiala he founded many villages within his territory, and reconstructed many historical Gurdwaras relating to [[Sikh]] Religion.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.patialastore.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=8 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619010306/http://patialastore.com/ |archive-date=19 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://patialacityonline.com/gurdwara_shri_dukhniwaran_sahib.htm]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldgurudwaras.com/historical-gurudwaras/india/punjab/patiala/gurudwara-sri-dukhniwaran-sahib-patiala |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-06-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20131007214500/http://www.worldgurudwaras.com/historical-gurudwaras/india/punjab/patiala/gurudwara-sri-dukhniwaran-sahib-patiala |archivedate=2013-10-07 }}</ref>

==References==
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