goo SKETCH OF THE SIKHS. 



-:■ -^::-- ■ SECTION L 



Sketch of the History and present State of the Sikhs; 



with Observations on their religious Institutions^ 

 2'--. Usages, Manners and Character. 



NANAC SHAH, the founder of the seft, since distinguished by the 

 siame of Sikhs, ^ was born in the year of Christ 1469, at a small village 

 called Taiwandi,f in the distridt of ^^a^^/sjii the,, province of Lahore, 

 His father, whose name was Ca'lu',1 was of ,th^JCsh^p;y.a cast, and Vedi 

 tribe of Hindils, and had no family; except Na°n a p,rffi4 his sister Na'nacIj, 

 who married a Hindu of the rrarne of Jayara Mj who was enxployed as 

 a grain-fa6lor by D^ulet Kha n Lgdi, a relation of the reigning emperor 

 of Delhi o Na'nac was, agreeably to the usage of the tribe in which he 

 was born^ married to a woman of respe<^able family ^ at an early age,§ 

 by whom he had; two sons, named SrIchand and LacshmI Daso The 

 former-i who. abandoned the vanities of the world, had a son called Dherm 



* Sikh or Sicsha, is a, Sanscrit word, which means a disciple, or devoted follower. Jii 

 the PenjnM il is corrupted into Sikh : it is a general terra, and applicable to any person that 

 follows a particular teacher^ 



t This village, or rathei town, for such it has bceorae, is now called Mdt/apur, It is 

 situated on the banlcS of the j^ej/ah, or Hi/phasis. 



i>'ry~He is "called by settle authors, K ALU' Vedi; but Vedi isaname derived from his 

 tribe or family. 



^ Several Sikh authors have been very precise in establishing the date of the consumma- 

 tion of this marriage, which they fix in the month of Asdrh^ of the Hindu sera of Vicka- 



MADITYA, 1543. 



