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<p class="C1">&#65279HARDI&#256L, PA&#7750&#7692IT (Pa&#7751&#7693it R&#257m Di&#257l, according to Gi&#257n&#299 Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i>), family priest of the Bed&#299 clan of Talva&#7751&#7693&#299 R&#257i Bhoi, was invited by Mahit&#257 K&#257l&#363 to prepare the horoscope of his newborn son, the future Gur&#363 N&#257nak. On learning from the Muslim midwife, Dault&#257&#7749, what marvellous portents she had witnessed, Hardi&#257l, says <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>, insisted on seeing the child. As the child was brought out in its swaddling clothes, the Pa&#7751&#7693it homaged it with folded hands and told father K&#257l&#363 that his son would sit under canopy. On the thirteenth day after the birth, Pa&#7751&#7693it Hardi&#257l came again to Mahit&#257 K&#257l&#363's house, this time to name the child. He, according to <i>B&#257l&#257 Janam S&#257kh&#299</i>, gave him the name N&#257nak Nira&#7749k&#257r&#299, and predicted, "Both Hindus and Turks will reverence him; his name will become current on earth and in heaven. The ocean will give him the way; so will the earth and the sky. He will worship Nira&#7749k&#257r, the One Formless Lord, and teach others to do so...." As N&#257nak entered his eleventh year, Pa&#7751&#7693it Hardi&#257l was invited by the family to invest him with the <i>jane&#363</i>, or sacrificial thread of upper-caste Hindus which, from the evidence that Janam S&#257kh&#299s and a hymn in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib bear, he declined to wear.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Bhall&#257, Sar&#363p D&#257s, <i>Mahim&#257 Prak&#257sh</i>. Patiala, 1970<BR>
<li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-33<BR>
<li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Panth Prak&#257sh</i> [Reprint]. Patiala, 1970<BR>
<li class="C1"> Kohl&#299, Surindar Si&#7749gh, ed. <i>Janamsakh&#299 Bh&#257&#299 B&#257l&#257</i>. Chandigarh, 1975<BR>
<li class="C1"> McLeod, W.H., tr., <i>The B40 Janam Sakhi</i>. Amritsar, 1980<BR>
<li class="C1"> Harbans Singh, <i>Guru Nanak and Origins of the Sikh Faith</i>. Bombay, 1969<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">Gurnek Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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