Morinda, also called Baghwala, is the town through which Mata Gujri Ji and the two younger Sahibzade were taken after being betrayed at the Sarsa, on the way to Sirhind.
The tradition holds that they were held overnight in the custody of the local officials, and Gurdwara Manji Sahib marks the place.
The road from the Sarsa crossing to Sirhind runs about forty kilometres through Morinda, and the whole sequence, capture, custody, Sirhind, the Thanda Burj and the executions, took a few days in the last week of December 1704.
The route is drivable in an hour and is not marked as a route.
Morinda now is a small town on the Chandigarh to Ludhiana road with a grain market and a rail junction.
The custody at Morinda is attributed in the tradition to Gangu, a former servant of the household, and the name has become a byword in Punjabi. The historical basis for the identification is the tradition itself.
A gurdwara at Morinda marks the place of the overnight halt. It is a small shrine in a town that most travellers pass through without stopping.
Nothing along that stretch is set up for anybody trying to follow it. The gurdwaras are in the middle of bazaars or at the edge of fields, not one of them carries a sign saying what came before it or what comes next, and a person doing the sequence has to know it already before setting out.