Bhai Manak Chand was the brother of Guru Amar Das, the third Sikh Guru and also of Bhai Ishar Das, the father of the famous Sikh scholar Bhai Gurdas. Bhai Manak Chank was from a Bhalla Khatri family who were from village Basarke, about eight miles (12kms) south-west of Amritsar, Punjab, India. He was married to Bibi Bhago (not Mai Bhago, the brave Sikhi warrior) and was the father-in-law of Bibi Amro, the daughter of the second Sikh Guru, Guru Angad and uncle of Bhai Jasoo. Bhai Ishar Das was the father of the Chief Academic of the Sikhs, Bhai Gurdas.