Toshakhana is a Persian word used for food or provisions for journey or food articles in general or storage room means, in Punjabi, a treasury or secured storehouse for valuables. It is now generally used for the storehouse in the Darbar Sahib complex at Amritsar where costly items presented as offerings to the Harmandir Sahib, the Akal Takhat and the shrine of Baba Atal Rai, and it is guarded by employees of the Darbar Sahib.