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Why is Gurpurab
celebrated?
• Gurpurab celebrates the birth
anniversaries of the ten Sikh
gur
.
gurus.
us
• The tenth and the last Sikh
Guru was Guru Gobind
Singh.
• "Gurpurab" is made of two
words-- "Gur", which means
r
e
s
t
ur
a
b"
, a
nd "
P
,
G
Guru or master, and "Purab",
ur
m
a
u or
which means parv in Hindi,
meaning day. So Gurpurab is
the day dedicated to the
Guru.
