Which of the following pairs of a compilation of Kabir's verses and t…

Which of the following pairs of a compilation of Kabir's verses and the tradition associated with it is correctly matched?

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → Kabir Granthavali - Dadupanth in Rajasthan

Option (1) Kabir Granthavali - Dadupanth in Rajasthan — Correct. The Kabir Granthavali is linked with the Dadupanth in Rajasthan. It is one of three distinct but overlapping traditions that compiled Kabir's verses.

Option (2) Kabir Bijak - Dadupanth in Rajasthan — Incorrect. The Kabir Bijak is preserved by the Kabirpanth in Varanasi and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh.

Option (3) Kabir Granthavali - Kabirpanth in Varanasi — Incorrect. The Kabirpanth in Varanasi preserves the Bijak. The Granthavali belongs to the Dadupanth.

Option (4) Adi Granth Sahib - Kabirpanth in Varanasi — Incorrect. The Adi Granth Sahib is the Sikh scripture, and many of Kabir's compositions are found in it.

NCERT (2026-27): “8.1 Weaving a divine fabric: Kabir
Kabir (c. fourteenth-fifteenth centuries) is perhaps one of the most outstanding examples of a poet-saint who emerged within this context. Historians have painstakingly tried to reconstruct his life and times through a study of compositions attributed to him as well as later hagiographies. Such exercises have proved to be challenging on a number of counts. Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions. The Kabir Bijak is preserved by the Kabirpanth (the path or sect of Kabir) in Varanasi and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh; the Kabir Granthavali is associated with the Dadupanth in Rajasthan, and many of his compositions are found in the Adi Granth Sahib (see Section 8.2). All these manuscript compilations were made long after the death of Kabir. By the nineteenth century, anthologies of verses attributed to him circulated in print in regions as far apart as Bengal, Gujarat and Maharashtra.”