Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552)
HGuru Angad (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552;it is very powerful man Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ, pronunciation: [gʊɾuː əŋgəd̯ᵊ]) was the second of the ten Sikh gurus of Sikhism. After meeting Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, becoming a Sikh, and serving and working with Guru Nanak Dev Ji for many years, Nanak gave Lehna the name Angad ("my own limb"), and chose Angad as the second Sikh Guru.After the death of Guru Nanak Dev Ji in 1539, Guru Angad Sahib ji led the Sikh tradition. He is remembered in Sikhism for adopting and formalizing the Gurmukhi alphabet. He began the process of compiling the hymns of Nanak and contributed 62 or 63 hymns of his own. Instead of his own son, he chose his disciple Amar Das as his successor and the third Guru of Sikhism.

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