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Guru Hargobind's eldest son, Baba Gurditta, was given to the Udasins at the behest of Baba Sri Chand and Baba Gurditta eventually replaced Baba Sri Chand as head of the Udasins after his death. [8] Baba Gurditta was the father of Guru Hari Rai, the grandfather of Guru Har Krishan, and the elder half-brother of Guru Tegh Bahadur. [19] [8]
English: Fresco of Sri Chand (seated on a tiger skin, founder of the Udasi sect of Sikhism) with his followers from Akhara Bala-Nand (full name: Akhara Mahant Bala Nand; founded in 1775) in Amritsar, Punjab.
Mural from Gurdwara Baba Atal depicting the story of Guru Nanak testing his potential successors by asking them to climb a tree to obtain food for guests. Lakhmi Das and Sri Chand refused to do so (both are depicted below Nanak) whilst Bhai Lehna obeyed (depicted climbing the tree to obtain sustenance for the gathering below).
A Sikh sakhi narrates a story involving the recapture of two horses, which had been forcibly taken from the Sikhs by the Mughals, by Bidhi Chand. [9] [10] [11]: 537–540 The horses had been seized as the owner, a Sikh who had raised and trained them, was bringing them from Kabul as an offering for the Guru in the company of two masands who had been dispatched to the local Sikh congregation of ...
Udasi, derived from the Sanskrit word "Udasin", [22]: 78 meaning "detached, journey", reflecting an approach to spiritual and temporal life, [23] is an early sect based on the teachings of Guru Nanak's elder son Sri Chand (1494–1643), who, contrary to his father's emphasis on participation in society, propagated ascetic renunciation and ...
Udasi and Udasin is derived from the Sanskrit word Udāsīn, which means one who is indifferent to or disregardful of worldly attachments, a stoic, or a mendicant. [9] [1] The word Udasi is derived from the Sanskrit word udasin, [10] meaning 'detached, journey', reflecting an approach to spiritual and temporal life, [5] or from udas ('detachment'), signifying indifference to or renunciation of ...
Sri Chand, son of Guru Nanak, seated reading scriptures to devotees in a forest hermitage. Sri Chand travelled to Sindh in the second half of the 16th century during the reign of the Tarkhan dynasty and lighted dhuni at Faqir Jo Goth. [2] At that time, Thatta was under the rule of Mirza Baqi Baig, Tarkhan ruler of Sindh (1554–1591), who was infamous for his oppressive and tyrannical reign.
Sultan Muzaffar Shah I, the founder of the Gujarat Sultanate, a Muslim Khatri kingdom and its ruling Muzaffarid Dynasty. He was a Tanka Khatri convert to Islam. [9]Maharaja Bijay Chand Mahtab Kapoor GCIE, KCSI, IOM, with origins from Kotli, Sialkot was the ruler of Bardhaman Raj in Bengal from 1887 till his death in 1941.