Place · Sikh historic town · Pakistan
Saidpur / Eminābād
Babur's sack of Saidpur, which Nanak answered in the Babarvani hymns. Those hymns are in the Guru Granth Sahib and the sack is in Babur's own memoir, which makes this the best-anchored place on any of the journeys.
- Date
- 1500–1524
- Function
- Travel & migration
- Tradition
- Janamsakhi tradition (Puratan, Bhai Bala, Miharban)
- Confidence
- Mixed / layered — Established for the event; the itinerary placement is traditional
- Location
- 32.035, 74.261
The janamsakhis put Saidpur in the first udasi, around 1500–1506, but Babur's sack was 1520–21. The event is firm; its place in the five-journey sequence is not.
Connections (1)
- CampaignGuru Nanak
The Bābarvānī hymns answer Babur's sack of Saidpur in 1520, which Nanak is said to have witnessed. They describe the killing and the enslavement without offering anyone consolation and without exempting God from the question — among the earliest eyewitness verse about the Mughal conquest in any Indian language. Babur's own memoir describes the campaign from the other side, so the same weeks are recorded by the conqueror in Turkish prose and by a witness in Punjabi verse.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Saidpur”. The Janamsākhī tradition; W.H. McLeod, Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion (1968).
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