Guru Arjan Dev (born in Amritsar, Punjab, India on 15 April 1563 and martyred in 1606 at Lahore, Punjab) is the fifth of the Ten Sikh Gurus. He embraced martyrdom against mughal tyranny on 16 June 1606.
Guru Arjan Dev was head of Sikhism for a quarter of a century and accomplished a lot during his regime. He completed the construction of the temple at Amritsar and founded other cities such as Taran Taran and Kartarpur. He constructed a Baoli at Lahore. The most important work of Arjan Dev was the compilation of Adi Granth. He collected all the work of the first four Gurus and dictated it in the form of verses in 1604.
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