ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>BANNO BH&#256&#298 (1558-1645)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="BANNO,BH*,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279BANNO, BH&#256&#298 (1558-1645), a prominent Sikh contemporary of Gur&#363 Arjan and Gur&#363 Hargobind, was the son of Bh&#257&#299 Bishan Dev of village M&#257&#7749ga&#7789, also called Kh&#257r&#257-M&#257&#7749ga&#7789, Kh&#257r&#257 being its older name, in Ph&#257l&#299&#257. <i>tahs&#299l</i> of Gujr&#257t district (now in Pakistan). He was born on Saturday, Bais&#257kh <i>sud&#299</i> 13, 1615 Bk/ 30 April 1558. Banno grew up with a deeply religious disposition. He turned a Sikh and rendered diligent service during the construction of Harimandar at Amritsar under Gur&#363 Arjan. On the completion of the compilation of (Gur&#363) Granth S&#257hib in 1604, Gur&#363 Arjan deputed Bh&#257&#299 Banno to carry the holy volume to Lahore for binding. The latter, with the Gur&#363's permission first. carried it to his village and then brought it back to Lahore. During his journey to and from his village he prepared his own copy of the Holy Book. He got both the copies bound and brought them to the Gur&#363, who installed the original copy (&#256di B&#299&#7771) in the Harimandar and returned the other copy to Bh&#257&#299 Banno. This recension came to be known as Bh&#257&#299 Banno V&#257l&#299 B&#299&#7771 or Kh&#257re V&#257l&#299 B&#299&#7771, because the Bh&#257&#299 had installed it in his own house at Kh&#257r&#257-M&#257&#7749ga&#7789.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>See</i> SR&#298 GUR&#362 GRANTH S&#256HIB.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bh&#257&#299 Banno continued to preach Sikh tenets in the north-western parts of the Punjab till his death in M&#257gh 1701 Bk/January 1645.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Bhall&#257, Sar&#363p D&#257s, <i>Mahim&#257 Prak&#257sh</i>. Patiala, 1971<BR> <li class="C1"> Bal, R&#257jinder Si&#7749gh, <i>Bh&#257&#299 Banno Darpan</i>. Jalandhar, 1989<BR> <li class="C1"><i>Bh&#257&#299 Banno S&#257hib</i>. Kanpur, n. d.<BR> <li class="C1"><i>Gurbil&#257s Chhev&#299&#7749 P&#257tsh&#257h&#299</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Major Gurmukh Si&#7749gh (Retd.)<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>