Guru Nanak

Fifth Udasi: (1523-1524 AD) Lasted about 2 years and covered the following towns and regions: Places within the Punjab. The most popular Janamsākhī were allegedly written by a close companion of the Guru Bhai Bala. So Nanak started his mission and the roots of Sikhism were laid down first towards the east of India.

Guru Nanak Dev [About this sound] pronunciation (help·info) (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; Hindi: गुरु नानक Urdu: گرونانک‎ [ˈɡʊɾu ˈnɑnək] Gurū Nānak) (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of the eleven Sikh Gurus the eleventh being the living Guru Guru Granth Sahib. It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak's sanctity divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.