Put the following religious teachers in chronological order beginning from the earliest to the latest:
(A) Thondaradippodi Azhwar in Tamil Nadu
(B) Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi
(C) Basavanna in Karnataka
(D) Sri Chaitanya in Bengal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (C), (B), (D)
Each religious teacher is placed by the time he lived.
(A) Thondaradippodi Azhwar in Tamil Nadu — about the 8th-9th century CE. He was one of the twelve Alvars, the Tamil poet-saints devoted to Vishnu, whose hymns were collected in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
(C) Basavanna in Karnataka — 12th century CE. A minister at the Kalachuri court, he led the Virashaiva (Lingayat) movement and wrote devotional vachanas in Kannada.
(B) Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi — 1238-1325. A Sufi saint of the Chishti order in the Delhi Sultanate; his dargah in Delhi is still visited by thousands.
(D) Sri Chaitanya in Bengal — 1486-1534. A Bhakti saint devoted to Krishna, he made congregational singing (kirtan) popular in Bengal and Odisha.