In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.
Assertion: Mughal court chroniclers drew upon many sources to show that the power of the Mughal kings came directly from God.
Reason: One of the legends says that Mongol queen Alanqua was impregnated by a ray of the moon while resting in her tent. The offspring she bore carried this Divine Light and passed it on from generation to generation.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option 4 - The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.
Assertion: Court chroniclers drew upon many sources to show that the power of the Mughal kings came directly from God.
Reason: One of the legends says that Mongol queen Alanqua was impregnated by a ray of the moon while resting in her tent. The offspring she bore carried this Divine Light and passed it on from generation to generation.
CORRECTION in Reason: One of the legends says that Mongol queen Alanqua was impregnated by a ray of SUNSHINE, (not the moon) while resting in her tent. The offspring she bore carried this Divine Light and passed it on from generation to generation.
Court chroniclers drew upon many sources to show that the power of the Mughal kings came directly from God. One of the legends they narrated was that of the Mongol queen Alanqua, who was impregnated by a ray of sunshine while resting in her tent. The offspring she bore carried this Divine Light and passed it on from generation to generation. Abu’l Fazl placed Mughal kingship as the highest station in the hierarchy of objects receiving light emanating from God (farr-i izadi ). Here he was inspired by a famous Iranian sufi, Shihabuddin Suhrawardi (d. 1191) who first developed this idea. According to this idea, there was a hierarchy in which the Divine Light was transmitted to the king who then became the source of spiritual guidance for his subjects.