Guru Angad

Guru Angad (1504–1552), born Lehna at Matte-di-Sarai, was the second of the Sikh gurus. His family fled their ancestral village for Khadur in fear of Babur's armies. A priest of the goddess Durga there, he met Guru Nanak at Kartarpur in his late twenties and served him devotedly for six or seven years; on 7 September 1539 Nanak renamed him Angad and installed him as successor.

He led the community from Khadur Sahib on the Beas, adopted and formalised the Gurmukhi alphabet for the Sikh scriptures, and began collecting Nanak's hymns, adding sixty-two or sixty-three saloks of his own. He died on 29 March 1552, having chosen his disciple Amar Das as the third guru.