1469 à The Origin of the story of 'Sahib Budha' :

Bura or Sahib Budha, son of Suagga, Was descended from the *Mal branch of the Randhawa.
From his early youth he attended Guru Nanak.

Bura's father had entrusted him with the tending of his cattle. One day he left the cattle untended and went to the Guru. In his absence the cattle grazed in a cornfield and so, while searching for Burra;

The owner of the field, came to Guru Nanak, and asked him where Bura was. The Guru seeing his anger, changed the boy into a white bearded old man And, in answer to the question said, "Brother, there is no boy named Bura here, But only an old man."

Bura thereafter was called Budha, And became one of the favourite disciples of the Guru. He continued in the service of five gurus successively from Guru Nanak to Guru Arjan.

[ *Mal = a wrestler or powerful man. It is used as a nickname in the Malwa. ]

EXCERPT:- A GLOSSARY OF THE TRIBES AND CASTES OF THE Punjab and North-West Frontier Province Based on the Census Report for the Punjab, 1883, by the late Sir DENZIL IBBETSON, K.C.S.i., and the Census Report for the Punjab, 1892, by the Hon. Mr. E. D. MacLAGAN, C.S.i., and complied by H. A. ROSE. pub. By LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT,PUNJAB


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