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<p class="C1">&#65279SADHN&#256, one of the fifteen saints and s&#363f&#299s whose hymns are incorporated in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, was a <i>qas&#257i</i> or butcher by profession who, by his piety and devotion, had gained spiritual eminence. He is believed to have been born at the village of Sehv&#257n, in Sindh. He was cremated at Sirhind, in the Punjab, where even today a tomb stands in his memory. He is considered to be a contemporary of N&#257m Dev, another medieval saint Sadhn&#257 lived by selling meat, though, as it is asserted, he never butchered the animals himself. His only <i>&#347abda</i> (hymn) in the measure Bil&#257val, in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, indicates his belief that all evil deeds of a man could be washed away by devoted meditation on the Name --- and so the deeds of a butcher:</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What merit have you, Enlightener of the world, if our ill deeds are not effaced?</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What avails it to enter the asylum of the lion, if a mere jackal will be allowed to devour one?</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I am nothing, nor is anything mine</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Save my honour, O lord, I am your slave after all. (GG, 858)</p>
<p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadhn&#257 worshipped the idol of <i>s&#257ligr&#257m</i>, the ammonite stone, symbolising god Vi&#7779&#7751u of the Hindu Trinity. His spiritual quest led him to renounce the household. He left Sehv&#257n and roamed about the country preaching the love of God. None of his holy songs have survived except the solitary hymn preserved in the Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib, which keeps his memory alive.</p>
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BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"><i>&#346abad&#257rth Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib</i>. Amritsar,1975<BR>
<li class="C1"> Gurdit Si&#7749gh, Gi&#257n&#299, <i>Itih&#257s Sr&#299 Gur&#363 Granth S&#257hib (Bhagat B&#257&#7751&#299 Bh&#257g)</i>. Chandigarh, 1990<BR>
<li class="C1"> S&#257hib Si&#7749gh, <i>Bhagat B&#257&#7751&#299 Sa&#7789&#299k</i>. Amritsar, 1959-60<BR>
<li class="C1"> Chaturved&#299, Parsh&#363 R&#257m. <i>Uttar&#299 Bh&#257rat k&#299 Sant Prampr&#257</i>. Allahabad,1964<BR>
<li class="C1"> Macauliffe, Max Arthur, <i>The Sikh Religion: Its Sacred Writings and Authors</i>. Oxford, 1909<BR>
</ol><p class="CONT">T&#257ran Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR>
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