ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>N&#256NAK&#298 BEBE</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="NNAK*,BEBE"> <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">&#65279N&#256NAK&#298, BEBE, or B&#299b&#299 N&#257nak&#299 (1464-1518), elder sister of Gur&#363 N&#257nak and the daughter of Kali&#257&#7751 Chand (B&#257b&#257 K&#257l&#363) and M&#257t&#257 Tript&#257, was born in 1464 in her mother's home at the village of Ch&#257hal, now in Lahore district of Pakistan Punjab. Five years older than her brother, she was the first to recognize his spiritual eminence and to become his devotee. She was married in 1475 to Jai R&#257m, an official at the court of Naw&#257b Daulat <u>Kh</u>&#257n Lodh&#299 at Sult&#257npur. Herself childless, Bebe N&#257nak&#299 adored her brother, N&#257nak, and felt herself blessed when he came to join the Naw&#257b's service and put up with her at Sult&#257npur. She arranged his marriage, and she loved his sons, Sr&#299 Chand and Lakhm&#299 D&#257s, as her own. Gur&#363 N&#257nak reciprocated her affection and, after he had quit the Naw&#257b's service to go out to preach his message, he did not fail to visit Sult&#257npur and meet his sister between whiles. Once as he visited her in 1518, Bebe N&#257nak&#299, seeing her end near, detained him a short while. As she had wished, she departed this life in the presence of her brother-Gur&#363. Three days later, her husband, Jai R&#257m, also expired. Gur&#363 N&#257nak himself performed their obsequies.</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, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Santokh Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299; <i>Sr&#299 Gur Prat&#257p S&#363raj Granth</i>. Amritsar, 1927-35<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i> [Reprint]. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1">.V&#299r Si&#7749gh, Bh&#257&#299, <i>Pur&#257tan Janam S&#257kh&#299</i> [Reprint]. Amritsar, 1982<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR> <li class="C1"> McLeod, W.H., <i>The B-40Janam-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> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>