Marriage and Sultanpur
Marriage to Mata Sulakhni
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji married the daughter of Mul Chand of the Chona Khatris, but the date and his age are given differently in each source.
A local tradition at Batala, recorded in the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism, says that when the wedding party halted near the bride's house, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji sat down by a crumbling mud wall. An old woman warned him to move before it fell. He told her not to be anxious, for the wall would stand a long while. Gurdwara Kandh Sahib now keeps the memory of the wall, and a fair at Batala marks the wedding day.
How do we know?
The sources conflict on this story, or scholars doubt it.
Miharban calls her Ghumi, which McLeod reads as a corruption of her family name Choni. The name Sulakhni appears only in the later record, but he finds no reason to dispute it.
- ScholarshipReports the local tradition of Bhadon sudi 7, 1544 Bk, or 24 September 1487, at Batala, with the bride's father living there as a caretaker of lands.[EoS]
- ScholarshipRepeats 24 September 1487 and names her mother as Chando Rani.[EoS]
- ScholarshipCompares age twelve in Puratan, fourteen in the Gyan Ratnavali, fifteen or sixteen in Miharban with a date of 1485, and a marriage after the move to Sultanpur in the Bala, and concludes the wedding at Batala was probably before the move, though the exact year is doubtful. (pp. 104-105)[McLeod]
