Panzgam

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.)

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Map of Panzgam

Kupwara-district-map

Panzgam (पंजगाम) is a village in Kupwara tahsil in Kupwara district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Variants

• Panz Gam
• Pānchigrāma/Panchigrama (पांचीग्राम)
• Panzigam
• Panji Gram

Location

Panzgam is a Village in Kralpora Block in Kupwara District of Jammu & Kashmir State, India. It is located 24 KM towards west from District head quarters Kupwara. 98 KM from State capital Srinagar. Panzgam Pin code is 193224 and postal head office is Trehgam . Panzgam C ( KM ) , Chowkibal ( 3 KM ) , Tumina ( 3 KM ) , Hafrada ( 7 KM ) , Dard Harie ( 8 KM ) are the nearby Villages to Panzgam. Panzgam is surrounded by Ramhal Block towards East , Trehgam Block towards East , Rajwar Block towards East , Kupwara Block towards East .

Panzgam is located near the karna kupwara highway.The place is considered as the head of the other village which come after it. Most of the people are farmers and a good no are also serving in various departments of jak government . The youth here are well aware of the avenues available to them I A large airfield is also present which caters the need of sporting to the adjacent villages as well.it is developing at a good pace and the tourist destination bungus is going to create employment avenues to the down and out section of the village in particular. Moreover panzgam is endowed with natural beauty grass land forests river Kehmil which is life line of the whole area.

Panz Gam, Pulwama

Panz Gam is a village in Awantipora tehsil of Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is 19 kilometres from Pulwama district headquarters and 45 km from Srinagar (the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir). It is located at the boundary of Awantipora Tehsil.

History

Pānchigrāma (पांचीग्राम) is mentioned in Rajatarangini . Identification: There are two villages by name Panzigam in Kupwara/Pulwama districts in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Panzgam:- This village is 20 km in the west of Kupwara. Major Beats gives a description of the village in his gazetteer. According to Thakur Icher Chand, the original name of the village was Panji Gram & Kalhan gives its description in 8th Tarang of Raj Tarangni. In the same description the name of Tar Malik also comes which may be the present Tarathpore, located near Panzgam. A battle between Raja Sher Ahmed Khan Bomba and the Jat Sikh rulers has taken place in the same village.

In Rajatarangini

Rajatarangini mentions ....The Rajavadana Balahara's speech: p.287 ...But when the Valahara heard that Bhoja had gone to the queen with the fixed intention of establishing peace, he spoke thus in no ambiguous terms.

" Man was misled by man during these days, but now that female relatives have become mediators, men belonging to their own family must come to terms. When Bhoja, the chief of the family, has acted thus out of love, how can men, [p.288]: like myself whom no one reckons, behave rudely. This you say is hypocrisy, be it so. He begot my confidence and then I am deceived ; I will not have a bad reputation. All men have united against us, be not therefore hopeful of victory. We have seen armies like ours destroyed, before this."

He spoke these reasonable words, and many other words after deliberation; but neither he nor others could turn Bhoja from his purpose. Two or three days before the battle, the king asked Bhoja why he acted contrary to previous arrangement, just at the eve of reaping the fruit of his good work.

At the time when the king stayed at Taramulaka, Dhanya and Rilhana accompanied with armies and Rajputs went to Pānchigrāma. When Bhoja learnt that the two had arrived on the southern bank of the river and were staying there, he too sat down in the woods on the opposite bank. When the king's army saw that the soldiers from various quarters incessantly enter the camp of the enemy, none of them believed that there would be peace.

Dhanya and others had entered the place forcibly and were unable to come out, they had a small force with them; and Rajavadana constantly meditated the plan for their destruction.

With a view to destroy the king's army, some people cut the bridge from Suryyapura, and sat hid on the boats which were at the Mahapadma lake. Others of the king's enemies who sought for bold adventure and were about to fall on the king's army stayed at various points on the road.

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