# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bhai-nand-lal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:36:43.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bhai-nand-lal"
name: "Bhai Nand Lal"
slug: "bhai-nand-lal"
description: "Bhai Nand Lal, also known by his pen name Goya, was a 17th-century Sikh poet in the Punjab region. He served as the Mir Munshi of the Mughal prince Bahadur Shah. He would be bestowed with the Mulla Goya title by Aurangzeb for his theological expositions. Later, he came the most celebrated poet from the Kavi Darbar of Guru Gobind Singh. A notable work of his were the ghazals he produced. Bhai Nand Lal, a respected Persian scholar, was one of the 52 poets associated with Guru Gobind Singh. He was part of the bhai tradition."
tagline: "Persian poet, Sikh scholar, and theologian (1633–1713)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Guru_Gobind_Singh_with_quotes_from_the_Ganjnama_composition_of_Bhai_Nand_Lal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1633"
deathDate: "1713"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.47
  momentum:             0.4778156996587031
  historical:           5.755437333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "భాయ్ నంద్ లాల్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bhai Nand Lal"
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    title: "Bhai Nand Lal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "भाई नन्द लाल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ഭായ് നന്ദലാൽ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AD%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88_%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A6_%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2"
    title: "ਭਾਈ ਨੰਦ ਲਾਲ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بھائی نند لال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump