According to British colonial records (such as the 1883 Amritsar District Gazetteer) and popular tradition, Emperor Akbar visited Guru Amar Das at Goindwal Sahib in the late 1560s. Deeply moved by the egalitarian ethos of the langar—where emperor and commoner sat side-by-side to eat—Akbar offered to endow a royal estate to support the community kitchen. When Guru Amar Das declined on the principle that the langar must rely entirely on voluntary contributions, Akbar bestowed the land (recorded in some sources as roughly 500 bighas or the revenue rights of several villages) directly onto Bibi Bhani as a personal gift.
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