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TEACHING OF NANAK
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of the story or the truth of the etymology, it is certain 1469-1539. that the Sikhs fully believe the spirit of Nanak to have been incarnate in each succeeding" Guru.^ Angad was ^^ ^*^ ^"'^" acknowledged as the teacher of the Sikhs, and Sri teache/o/ Chand, the son of Nanak, justified his father's fears, men. and became the founder of the Hindu sect of 'Udasis', a community indifferent to the concerns of this world.^ 1 This belief is an article of faith with the Sikhs. Cf. the Dahistan (ii. 253, 281). The Guru Har Gobind signed himself •Nanak' in a letter to Muhsin Fani, the author of that work. - For some account of the Udasis, see Wilson, Asiatic Researches, xvii. 232. The sect is widely diffused; its members are proud of their connexion with the Sikhs, and all reverence, and
most possess and use, the Granth of Nanak.
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Note. For many stories regarding Nanak himself, which has not been thought necessary to introduce into the text or notes, the curious reader may refer with profit to Malcolm's Sketch, to the second volume of the Dabistan, and to the first volume of Dr. Macgregor's recently published History. it
CHAP. II
43
of the story or the truth of the etymology, it is certain 1469-1539. that the Sikhs fully believe the spirit of Nanak to have been incarnate in each succeeding" Guru.^ Angad was ^^ ^*^ ^"'^" acknowledged as the teacher of the Sikhs, and Sri teache/o/ Chand, the son of Nanak, justified his father's fears, men. and became the founder of the Hindu sect of 'Udasis', a community indifferent to the concerns of this world.^ 1 This belief is an article of faith with the Sikhs. Cf. the Dahistan (ii. 253, 281). The Guru Har Gobind signed himself •Nanak' in a letter to Muhsin Fani, the author of that work. - For some account of the Udasis, see Wilson, Asiatic Researches, xvii. 232. The sect is widely diffused; its members are proud of their connexion with the Sikhs, and all reverence, and
most possess and use, the Granth of Nanak.
—
Note. For many stories regarding Nanak himself, which has not been thought necessary to introduce into the text or notes, the curious reader may refer with profit to Malcolm's Sketch, to the second volume of the Dabistan, and to the first volume of Dr. Macgregor's recently published History. it
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