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Guru Nanak
गुरुनानकः sa गुरु नानक hi குரு நானக் ta
First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
- Child of Mehta Kalu Ji and Mata Tripta
- Married to Mata Sulakhni
- Dated 15 April 1469 CE – 22 September 1539 CE
- Recognised as Thaumaturge
Sikh guru
leader
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
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Offices held 2
Family
The family of Guru Nanak
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 6
Family 6
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Mata Tripta Mother of the first Sikh guru, Nanak Dev
- child of (father) Mehta Kalu Ji Father of the first Sikh guru ( Shri guru Nanak Dev Ji )
- parent of (child) Lakhmi Das Guru Nanak's son
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parent of (father) Sri Chand Guru Nanak's son -
sibling of Bebe Nanaki elder sister of Guru Nanak - married to Mata Sulakhni Guru Nanak's wife
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
10 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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