Nanak names his disciple Lehna as Angad, the second Guru, passing over his own sons; Angad consolidates the community at Khadur Sahib and is credited with standardizing and spreading the Gurmukhi script in which the Sikh scripture is written.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1539 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Khadur Sahib; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Angad
Primary Sources
- Janamsakhis
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Fenech and McLeod, Historical Dictionary of Sikhism (Rowman and Littlefield, 3rd ed. 2014)
Provenance: HIST-0503; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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