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To remember Guru Nanak is to necessarily remember Bhai Mardana, long extolled as the first Sikh
FirstpostAmong northern India’s more unique communities are the Mirasis. It is likely that owing to the nature of their work and the fact that they hailed from the same village, the family of Bhai Mardana were familiar with Mehta Kalu, who in 1469, became the father of a boy, who would eventually become known to the world as Guru Nanak. According to the 18th century Sikh scholar and martyr Bhai Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi, Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardana first met in 1480. The young Nanak, a soulful singer, as narrated in 19th century historian, Ratan Singh Bhangu’s Prachin Panth Prakash, fashioned a musical instrument out of reeds and gave it to Mardana to play while he sang. Nanak, on learning of Qandhari’s rejection, nevertheless insisted that Mardana make the steep climb two more times, before pushing aside a rock near where he sat, to reveal a gushing fountain.
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