ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>PHER&#362 MALL B&#256B&#256 (d. 1526)</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="PHERj,MALL,BB"> <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">&#65279PHER&#362 MALL, B&#256B&#256 (d. 1526), father of Gur&#363 A&#7749gad, was the third son of Bh&#257&#299 Gehn&#363 Mall, a Treha&#7751 Khatr&#299 of M&#257&#7749gov&#257l village in the present Gujr&#257t district of Pakistan. He was born in his ancestral village, but was brought up in the family of his mother's parents, who lived at Matte d&#299 Sar&#257i, a village now known as Sar&#257i N&#257&#7749g&#257, 16 km northeast of Muktsar, in the Punjab. He gained proficiency in Persian and, as he grew up, he was employed as an accountant by the local landlord, Chaudhar&#299 Ta<u>kh</u>t Mall. He was married in the same village (the bride's name has been recorded differently by chroniclers as Sabhr&#257&#299, R&#257mo and Day&#257 Kaur). A son, lahi&#7751&#257 (Gur&#363 A&#7749gad), was born to the couple on 31 March 1504. In 1519, Pher&#363 Mall had differences with his employer and quit service. In the following year, during one of B&#257bar's incursions into the plains of India, Matte d&#299 Sar&#257i suffered pillage at the hands of the invaders. Pher&#363 M&#257ll, along with his family left the village and, after a brief stay at Har&#299ke, shifted to <u>Kh</u>a&#7693&#363r, now known as <u>Kh</u>a&#7693&#363r S&#257hib. Here M&#257&#299 Sabhr&#257&#299, the sister of his former employer and a devotee of Gur&#363 N&#257nak, treated him as her own brother and helped him to get settled.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pher&#363 Mall died at <u>Kh</u>a&#7693&#363r in 1526.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><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"> Satb&#299r Singh, <i>Qudarat&#299 N&#363r</i>. Jalandhar, 1981<BR> <li class="C1"> Gi&#257n Si&#7749gh, <i>Gi&#257n&#299, Tw&#257r&#299<u>kh</u> Gur&#363 <u>Kh</u>&#257ls&#257</i>. [Reprint]. Patiala, 1970<BR> <li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion</i>. Oxford, 1909<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>