Hindal
sikh religious leader
Hindal (1573 – 1646/1648), also spelt as Handal or Hundal, was a Sikh religious leader. A sect associated with him later arose, with the group producing their own literature, such as a janamsakhi tradition, the Hindaliya Janam Sakhi. However, the sect was not as influential as the Minas.
Biography
He was a Jatt who was born as Sukh Ram Hundal, being the son of father Gaji and mother Sukkhi of Jandiala (near Amritsar). He would marry a woman named Uttami, daughter of a Chahal Jatt named Hamza. Originally a follower of Sakhi Sarwar (Sultani cult), Hindal was converted to Sikhism due to the missionary work of the third Sikh guru, Guru Amar Das. Hindal, remembered as being a man of few-words and meditative, served Guru Amar Das (receiving the Sikh initiation from the third guru) at the langar and was responsible for the collection of dasvandh at Goindwal, and later served Guru Ram Das. As per Suraj Prakash, after an act of devotion, Guru Ram Das instructed Hindal to returned to his native village of Jandiala, where he had been appointed as the masand for that manji, to spread Sikhism there. Hindal spread Sikhism in the Jandiala region of Amritsar district by using the word Niranjan ("bright one"), with the utterance Niranjan-Niranjan being associated to Hindal, used to refer to the divine. Hindal engaged in farming and clerical work.
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