Journey
Guru Nanak's second udasi — south
South to Rameswaram and, the tradition says, across to Lanka. Sangladip is claimed by the janamsakhis alone. The count itself is disputed: this follows the five-udasi scheme of the Puratan janamsakhi, while most reference accounts give four. Dates vary by several years between sources. What the janamsakhis agree on is the direction and the encounters, not the itinerary, and the repository maps the claim rather than a reconstruction.
Stops (3)
- Rāmeshvara / Rameswaram · c.1510 — Rāmeshvaram, the southern tirtha
The second journey runs down the peninsula to the great Śaiva island shrine at the strait. The gurdwara tradition marks a stop; the temple's own records do not. Like the first udāsi this one visits the most confident sacred places available and does not accept their terms.
- Nanak Jhira, Bidar · c.1511 — Nanak Jhira at Bidar, the spring
A Deccan gurdwara on the return, where Nanak is said to have struck a rock and brought out sweet water for a town drinking brackish. The spring still runs and the shrine is one of the largest Sikh institutions in the south, several hundred kilometres from any Punjabi population.
- Sangladīp · c.1512 — Sangladīp, the island
The Lanka of the janamsākhis, where Nanak is said to have converted a king called Shivnābh. No Sri Lankan source records it and the identification is contested; the repository carries it because the tradition does, marked as a claim of the janamsākhis rather than of the historical record.