Journey
Guru Nanak's third udasi — north
North into the mountains, to the Sidh Gosht on Sumer Parbat and, the lists say, as far as Tibet and Tashkent. Every place on this journey is janamsakhi testimony and nothing else. 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.
Stops (3)
- Mount Kailāsa · c.1515 — Sumer Parbat, the Sidh Gosht
The cosmic mountain, identified with Kailāsa, where the janamsākhis stage the great debate with the Nāth siddhas. Their question is why he does not renounce; his answer, in the Sidh Gosht, is that the householder who keeps his mind clear has done the harder thing.
- Lhasa · c.1516 — Lhasa, the northern claim
The janamsākhi lists put Tibet on the third journey, and Lhasa is the point they name. There is no Tibetan record and no corroboration; some Sikh traditions in the Himalaya maintain the claim and others treat the northern udāsi as the least historical of the five.
- Tashkent · c.1517 — Tashkent, the furthest north
Named in the lists as the northern limit reached. Central Asia was connected to the Punjab by trade and by the Mughals' own origins, so the route is not implausible; the evidence for it is the janamsākhis alone, which is true of most of this journey.