SULAKKHĀṆĪ, MĀTĀ, wife of Gurū Nānak, was the daughter of Mūl Chand, a Choṇā Khatrī of Baṭālā, who held a minor revenue office at the village of Pakkhoke Randhāve in Gurdāspur district of the Punjab. Her mother's name was Chando Rāṇī. Sulakkhāṇī was married to Gurū Nānak at Baṭālā on 24 September 1487. Two sons were born to her--- Srī Chand in 1494 and Lakhmī Dās in 1497. She survived Gurū Nānak and expired at Kartārpur, an habitation the Gurū had founded on the right bank of the river Rāvī and where he had spent the last years of his life.

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