Sunday, January 31, 2010

Baba Chamliyal,India-Pak border,Jammu


Baba Chamliyal or Pir Baba Chamliyal is located in a small village around 50 kms from Jammu city.Before I proceed to discuss the significance of this place it is important to understand the story behind this place.
The was a saintly gentleman called Baba Dalip Singh staying in the village called Chamliyal, Jammu.He commanded good deal of respect from people from either sides of the border. He had a habit of quenching the thirst of travellers by providing them water from his own hands. As it has always happened in history, there were a few irrational elements who hated Baba ji for his good deeds. One day they called Baba ji conspiringly to a nearby village ( now in pakistan) and beheaded him.
Surprisingly, Baba ji's head flew back to Indian side and body remained in Pakistan. One day a follwer of Baba ji had severe skin disease (charm rog), no doctor could cure it. It is said that Baba Ji appeared in his dream and instructed him to make a paste out of gravel ( they call it Shakkar close to the border and water (they call it Sharbat) from the well that he had dug himself to feed the travellers. Amazingly his disease cured. Since then Chamliyal has been a place of great devotion and a center of curing chronic skin diseases.The area is under the control of BSF and one can literally see the Pakistani posts from our side.There is a dargah in Indian side of the border as well a durgah in the Pakistan side too.


Rest of the story and significance would be better understood pictorially.




Main enterance








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Shakkar, it is a very fine, soft gravel unlike the one that we have in parks or garden








The well from which Sharbat is dug up









Main Dargah