Baba Kalyan Chand (1440 – 1522), son of Mata Banarasi and Baba Shiv Narayan and grandson of Baba Ram Narayan Bedi, was the father of Guru Nanak Sahib. Some writers have mentioned his name as Kalu Mehta and Kalyan Rai also. He was a village officer of Talwandi Rai Bhoi Di. He was a farmer too. Baba Shiv Ram, the father of Baba Kalyan Das was a resident of Patthewind village but had, later, when he became Patwari (village officer) of Talwandi Rai Bhoi Di, he brought the family to Talwandi Rai Bhoi Di. (Now Patthewind village does not exist. It was in between the village of Lohar and Jama Rai, in Tarn Taran Tehsil). Baba Kalyan Das was married to (Mata) Tripta (daughter of Bhai Rama of village Chahal, district Lahore) in 1451. She gave birth to (Bebe) Nanaki in 1464 and Guru Nanak Sahib in 1469. He died at Kartarpur, the town founded by Guru Nanak Sahib.
(Dr Harjinder Sinh Dilgeer)