A holy man worshipped as their ancestor by all Jains from the village of Pasrur.
Baba Dharam Dass
Baba Dharam Dass is a holy man whose Tomb is located near the bank of a creek called (Deoka or Deokay or Degh) near Chawinda phatic back side of agricultural main office pasrur, the town of Pasrur near Sialkot in Pakistan Punjab.
Baba Dharam Dass is the ancestor of all Jains who hail from Pasrur. Most Jains revere and worship him during important birth and other ceremonies in their families.[citation needed]
Baba Dharam Dass retained his profession as a clothes merchant. He was murdered in a nearby village while selling his goods from a horse.
Descendents of Baba Dharam Dass had to flee Pasrur during the partition of India into India and Pakistan during 1947. Unable to travel back to Pasrur to perform important rituals on the tomb of Baba Dharam Dass, they have created two replicas of his tomb, one in the town of Meerut near Delhi and other in Ludhiana in Indian Punjab.
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