Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Bhakti Sufi Traditions

Question:

Identify the correct statements from below:

(A) Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions.
(B) The Kabir Bijak is preserved by the Kabirpanth in Varanasi.
(C) The Kabir Granthawali is associated with the Dadupanth in Maharashtra.
(D) Many of Kabir's compositions are found in the Adi Granth Sahib.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

(A), (B) and (D) only

(A), (B) and (C) only

(A), (B), (C) and (D)

(B), (C) and (D) only

Correct Answer:

(A), (B) and (D) only

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (D) only

(A) Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions. (Correct)
(B) The Kabir Bijak is preserved by the Kabirpanth in Varanasi. (Correct)
(C) The Kabir Granthawali is associated with the Dadupanth in Maharashtra. (Incorrect). The Kabir Granthavali is associated with the Dadupanth in Rajasthan, not Maharashtra.
(D) Many of Kabir's compositions are found in the Adi Granth Sahib. (Correct)

"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 . 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.