Guru Nanak Dev
Birth
1469
– 1539
A renowned medieval Punjabi poet, the founder of the Sikh faith, its first Guru, and a reformer. His compositions include Japji Sahib, Sidh Gosht, Asa di Var, Dakhni Onkar, among others. Out of the 31 ragas employed in the Guru Granth Sahib, he composed bani (sacred hymns) in 19 of them.
Guru Nanak Dev is a famous poet of medieval Punjabi literature, a social reformer, and the founder of Sikhism, the first Guru Sahib of the Sikh religion. In the Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Ji's Bani is recorded in 973 hymns across 19 ragas.