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* 3. Building of the Sikh Church Angad (1504-52) L ehna had been a devout Hindu before he met Nanak. At the very first meeting he fell under the spell of the Guru's words and abandoned the worship of his gods and his business, to devote himself to the service of the Sikh community at Kanarpur. Twice Nanak persuaded him to return to his family at Khadur, but both times he came back. His devotion convinced the Guru that Lehna would make a better leader than either of his own sons. An additional factor in preferring Lehna was the fact that he had a sizeable following of his own which he was gradually bringing into the Sikh fold. To forestall subsequent opposition from his sons, Nanak expressed his preference for Lebna in public; 'Thou an Angad, a pan of my body.' Long before his death he had one of his chief disciples, Bhai Buddha, daub Angad's forehead with saffron and proclaim him as the second guru.• Sri Chand was not an ambitious man. 2 Nevertheless, since he was the elder son of the Guru and a man of pious habits, there were many who believed that Nanak's place should go to him. I 'Nanak proclaimed the accession of Lehna.... He (Lehna) had the same light and the same ways. The Guru merely changed his body.• ( Var. Satta a1III BaJwand.) 2 Gurdas and the bards Saua and Balwand hinted that both of the Guru's sons were disobedienL.