sowed the seed from which it sprang. In Guru Angad's time its trunk towered on high, and its roots penetrated the earth, while during Guru Amar Das's spiritual reign it put forth its widely spreading branches in every direction.
As the Emperor Akbar administered his empire by the agency of governors of provinces, so Guru Amar Das similarly partitioned the Sikh spiritual empire into twenty-two districts.[1]
Guru Amar Das, after a spiritual reign of twenty- two years, departed this life at ten o clock on the forenoon of the day of the full moon in the month of Bhadon, Sambat 1631 (A.D. 1574). There is a yearly fair held on that date at Goindwal to commemorate the act of the Guru's blending with his Maker.
Mohri had, as we have seen, a son called Anand. Anand s son was Sundar Das, who afterwards at the request of Guru Arjan wrote the following account of the death of Guru Amar Das. The composition is called the 'Sadd' or the 'Calling', and is now sung by Sikhs on all occasions of mourning.
THE SADD
I
God is the Benefactor of the Universe; He loveth the
saints and filleth the three worlds.
They in whose hearts the Guru's instruction is contained
know none besides God;
Under the Guru s instruction they know none besides;
they meditate on the one Name.
By the favour of Nanak and Guru Angad, Amar Das
obtained the supreme position.
When the message came for him to depart, he was absorbed
in Gods name.
In this world he obtained the eternal, immovable, and
unequalled God by service.
- ↑ Manjis. Literally—couches on which the Gurus used to sit and communicate instruction to their audiences.
