Arrange the following religious teachers in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the last.
(A) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
(B) Basavanna
(C) Vallabhacharya
(D) Andal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (D), (B), (C), (A)
The four teachers belong to four different centuries, so placing each one in time settles the order:
(D) Andal — the only woman among the twelve Alvars, the Tamil saints devoted to Vishnu; she lived in the 8th century and composed the Tiruppavai.
(B) Basavanna — the 12th-century Kannada reformer of the court of the Kalachuri king Bijjala, who led the Virashaiva (Lingayat) movement.
(C) Vallabhacharya — the Bhakti teacher of Krishna worship (1479–1531), founder of the Pushti Marg.
(A) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi — the Naqshbandi Sufi (1564–1624) of Akbar’s and Jahangir’s reigns, the latest of the four.