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{{Short description|Second Sikh guru from 1539 to 1552}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox religious biography | religion = [[Sikhism]] | name = Guru Angad | image = Guru Angad miniature painting.jpg | alt = | caption = Miniature painting depiction of Guru Angad | birth_name = Lehna | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1504|03|31}} | birth_place = [[Matte-di-Sarai (Sarainaga)]], [[Sri Muktsar Sahib]], [[Punjab (region)|Panjab]], [[Delhi Sultanate]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1552|03|29|1504|03|31}} | death_place = [[Khadur Sahib]], [[Lahore Subah]], [[Mughal Empire]]<ref>{{cite book|author=H. S. Singha|title=The Encyclopedia of Sikhism (over 1000 Entries)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqIbJz7vMn0C |year=2000|publisher=Hemkunt Press|isbn=978-81-7010-301-1|page=20}}</ref> | known_for = Standardising the [[Gurmukhi]] Script | predecessor = [[Guru Nanak]] | successor = [[Guru Amar Das]] | spouse = [[Mata Khivi]] | children = Baba Dasu (1521–1598)<br /> Baba Dattu (1524–1575)<br /> [[Bibi Amro]] (1529–1601) <br />Bibi Anokhi (1531–1608) | parents = Mata Ramo and Baba Pheru Mal | native_name = ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ | native_name_lang = pa | location = [[Khadur Sahib|Khadur]] | other_name = Second Master<br />Second Nanak | period = 1539–1552 }} {{Sikhism sidebar}} '''Guru Angad''' (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552;<ref name=eos/> {{Langx|pa|ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ}}, {{IPA|pa|gʊɾuː əŋgəd̯ᵊ|pron}}) was the second of the ten [[Sikh gurus]] of Sikhism. After meeting [[Guru Nanak]], the founder of [[Sikhism]], becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with Nanak for many years, Nanak gave Lehna the name Angad ("my own limb"),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clarke|first1=Peter B.|last2=Beyer|first2=Peter|title=The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|isbn=9781135210991|page=565}}</ref> and chose Angad as the second Sikh Guru.<ref name="Fenech2014p36"/><ref name="ColeSambhi1995p18"/><ref name=Shackle_2005>{{cite book | last=Shackle | first=Christopher |author2=Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh | year=2005 | title=Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures | publisher=Routledge | location=United Kingdom | isbn = 0-415-26604-1 | pages=xiii–xiv | no-pp=true}}</ref> After the death of Nanak in 1539, Angad led the Sikh tradition.<ref name=eosamardas>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/TheEncyclopediaOfSikhism-VolumeIA-d/page/n163 |title=Amar Das, Guru (1479–1574) |last1=Kushwant Singh |website=Encyclopaedia of Sikhism |publisher=Punjab University Patiala |access-date=8 December 2019}}</ref><ref name=cole20>{{cite book|author1=William Owen Cole|author2=Piara Singh Sambhi|title=The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIC_MgJ5RMUC&pg=PA22| year=1995| publisher= Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-898723-13-4|pages=20–21}}</ref> He is remembered in Sikhism for adopting and formalising the [[Gurmukhi alphabet]].<ref name="Mandair2013p35"/><ref name="ColeSambhi1995p18"/> He began the process of compiling the hymns of Nanak and contributed 62 or 63 [[Shloka|''Saloks'']] of his own.<ref name="ColeSambhi1995p18"/> Instead of his own son, he chose his disciple [[Guru Amar Das|Amar Das]] as his successor and the third Guru of Sikhism.<ref name=eosamardas/><ref name=cole20/>
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