In the traditional accounts, Nanak travels in four great journeys across India and beyond, to Hindu and Muslim holy places from Assam to Mecca and Baghdad, debating ascetics and rulers and singing his hymns; he returns to found the town of Kartarpur, where the community lives by work, sharing, and remembrance of the Name.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- c. 1500–1520 (approximate)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Kartarpur; today Punjab, Pakistan
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Nanak, Mardana
Primary Sources
- Janamsakhis
Secondary Sources
- McLeod, Sikhism (Penguin, 1997)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0502; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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