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Definition of Nanak
1. Noun. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nanak
Literary usage of Nanak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1918)
"God, said nanak, places salvation in good works and uprightness of conduct : the
Lord will ask of man, ' What has he done ? ' 4—and the teacher further ..."
2. Thoughts and Aspirations of the Ages: Selections in Prose and Verse from the by William Chatterton Coupland (1895)
"nanak says, The time slipped away; why art thou grieving now, O blind one! 40.
... nanak says, Listen, O heart! what pleases God, that will take place i in ..."
3. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"A religious sect in Northern India, founded in the sixteenth century by Babu nanak.
They profess a reformed form of Hinduism, rejecting caste and various ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... a branch of the Bedis, descendants of Guru Baba nanak. Originally held by a
Sayyid proprietor; conquered by Bedi Sahib Singh during the reign of Ranjit ..."
5. The Sikhs by John James Hood Gordon (1904)
"nanak THE REFORMER, FOUNDER OF THE SIKH SECT. ... originated with the teaching
of nanak, who from being a wandering Hindu devotee settled down about the ..."
6. Indian Theism from the Vedic to the Muhammadan Period by Nicol Macnicol (1915)
"Ix KABIR AND nanak FROM Ramananda, the South.Indian follower of Ramanuja, who
found his native land of the South too narrow for him, and set up his mat/i on ..."
7. Linguistic and Oriental Essays: Written from the Year 1840-1903 by Robert Needham Cust (1880)
"nanak passed the highest standard, resisted all their blandishments, out-argued all
... nanak informed him, that that luminary was far below them ; he then ..."
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