Baba Dasa Labana (

Gurmukhi Gurmukhī ( , Shahmukhi: ) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504–1552). Commonly regarded as a Sikh script, Gurmukhi is used in Punjab, India as the official scrip ...

: ਬਾਬਾ ਦਾਸਾ ਲਬਾਣਾ) (also called Bhai Dasa) was a

Labana Labana (also spelled Lubana, Lavana, Lubhana; ) is a merchant and transportation community in India engaged in maritime trade and land trade, which includes trading and transportation of goods such as saltpetre, silk, diamonds, etc. In the P ...

trader and a devout

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. He belonged to Mota Tanda. He was the father of Makhan Shah Labana. According to Sikh Historian Harpal Singh Kasoor, Bhai Dasa was Masand of Africa region, appointed by

Guru Ram Das Guru Ram Das (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮ ਦਾਸ, pronunciation: ; 24 September 1534 – 1 September 1581), sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore, who ...

.''First Masand Of Africa, Dasa Lubana, Father of Makhan Shah Lubana.'': Retrieved from Harpal Singh Kasoor's personal websit
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