Arrange the following Bhakti saints in a chronological order.
(A) Ramanujacharya
(B) Raidas
(C) Lal Ded
(D) Mirabai
(E) Appar
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (E), (A), (C), (B), (D)
(E) Appar
(A) Ramanujacharya
(C) Lal Ded
(B) Raidas
(D) Mirabai
Some Major Religious Teachers in the Subcontinent (time in CE):
c. 500-800: Appar, Sambandar, Sundaramurti in Tamil Nadu
c. 800-900: Nammalvar, Manikkavachakar, Andal, Tondaradippodi in Tamil Nadu.
c.1000-1100: Al Hujwiri, Data Ganj Bakhsh in the Punjab; Ramanujacharya in Tamil Nadu
c.1100-1200: Basavanna in Karnataka
c.1200-1300: Jnanadeva in Maharashtra
c.1300-1400: Lal Ded in Kashmir
c.1400-1500: Kabir, Raidas, Surdas in Uttar Pradesh
c.1500-1600: Sri Chaitanya in Bengal; Mirabai in Rajasthan;Shaikh Abdul Quddus Gangohi, Malik Muhammad Jaisi, Tulsidas in Uttar Pradesh.