According to some traditions, preceptor of Mirabai was _________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Raidas
According to some traditions, Mirabai’s preceptor was Raidas, a leather worker, which would indicate her defiance of the norms of caste society.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “8.3 Mirabai, the devotee princess … Mirabai (c. fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) is perhaps the best-known woman poet within the bhakti tradition. Biographies have been reconstructed primarily from the bhajans attributed to her, which were transmitted orally for centuries. According to these, she was a Rajput princess from Merta in Marwar who was married against her wishes to a prince of the Sisodia clan of Mewar, Rajasthan. She defied her husband and did not submit to the traditional role of wife and mother, instead recognising Krishna, the avatar of Vishnu, as her lover. Her in-laws tried to poison her, but she escaped from the palace to live as a wandering saint composing songs that are characterised by intense expressions of emotion. 8.3 Mirabai, the devotee princess … According to some traditions, her preceptor was Raidas, a leather worker. This would indicate her defiance of the norms of caste society.…” |