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Sri Chand (8 September 1494 – 13 January 1629; Gurmukhi: ਸ੍ਰੀ ਚੰਦ), also referred to as Baba Sri Chandra or Bhagwan Sri Chandra, was the founder of the Udasi sect of ascetic Sadhus. [6]
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 ...
Another Sikh tradition links the Udasis to Baba Gurditta, the eldest son of Guru Hargobind, and there is dispute on whether the Udasis originated with Sri Chand or Gurditta. [23] Udasis were some of the first proselytizers of Sikhism. They maintain their own parallel line of gurus from Guru Nanak, starting from Sri Chand followed by Gurditta. [22]
Sri Chand Darbar or Baba Sri Chandar Temple is a 500 year old religious shrine dedicated to the Sri Chand, founder of Udasi sect and elder son of Guru Nanak. It is located in Faqir Jo Goth near Thatta city [ 1 ]
[citation needed] They were married on 24 September 1487, in the town of Batala, [43] and would go on to have two sons, Sri Chand and Lakhmi Chand [42] (or Lakhmi Das). [ iv ] [ 44 ] Nanak lived in Sultanpur until c. 1500, [ 42 ] which would be a formative time for him, as the puratan janamsakhi suggests, and in his numerous allusions to ...
This is the most popular and widely accepted view among local people and devotees and his age is said to be 321 years. Some scholars don't agree with this as even Baba Sri Chand did not have such a long legendary lifespan. Baba Biram Das was a celibate and didn't father any children throughout his life.
Ganga Ram Viakarni (fl. 18th century), also known as Ganga Das Viakarni, [1] was an 18th-century Udasi mahant who founded the Chitta Akhara (also known as 'Akhara Ganga Ram' after its founder), an akhara located in the Mai Sawan Bazar neighbourhood of Amritsar.
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.