Village replete with religious places of historic significance

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The village houses the historic Gurdwara Mithasar built at the place where the sixth Guru, Hargobind Singh, had stayed. Legend has it that at the time of the Guru's visit stood the haveli of a king who had two squabbling wives. To end their constant fight, the king decided to get two separate wells dug up. One of them believed in the existence of god and another was an atheist. The well of the believer had offered saline water while the atheist got the supply of sweet water. When the Guru was returning from Lahore's Bhujanga Da Dera, he stayed at the haveli and sought water from the well of the believer and pronounced it Mitha (sweet). To the utter surprise of the villagers, the well offered sweet water, instead of saline, narrated Jashandeep Singh, a native of the village. Two wells of the time of the Guru are still intact. One of them lies under the building and another next to it. A massive annual fair takes place in June drawing devotees from far and wide. Natives associate the village with Raja Naal and said he was the one who had set up it centuries ago. More than five centuries old Shesh Naag and Shesh Mata temple, which also has idols of Radha Krishna, offers a heritage look of temple architecture. Its present head Mahant Ram Narayan Das said the temple was spread over two acres of land. He said the place was earlier known as Nau (Nine) Sidho Ki Bhoomi. The temple has an old well which also has some inscriptions written inside the wall of the well in Urdu, which needs to be studied by experts with the help of technology as the inscription is over 10 feet below the surface. He said the temple was set up by Par Brahm Parmeshwar Khanducharya Ji Maharaj, its second head was Par Brahm Parmeshwar Yogiraj Brahmdas, followed by Par Brahm Parmeshwar Puran Giri, Par Brahm Parmeshwar Tirath Ram, Par Brahm Parmeshwar Bishan Das, a contemporary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Ram Das, Par Brahm Parmeshwar Tulsi Dal and Par Brahm Parmeshwar Kaushal Das. There is another temple, locally known as Baba Tapiana, situated on on the outskirts of the village facing barbed wire fencing installed on the Indo-Pak border. Its name indicates that the place was used for meditation as a beautiful natural pond enhances the beauty of the place. People gather here during the annual fair