Which of the following statements are correct?
(A) Guru Arjan compiled Guru Nanak's hymns in the Adi Granth Sahib.
(B) Guru Tegh Bahadur laid the foundation of the Khalsa Panth.
(C) Guru Nanak composed the Guru Granth Sahib.
(D) Mirabai was a Maratha princess.
(E) Mirabai was a Rajput princess.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (E) only
(A) Guru Arjan compiled Guru Nanak’s hymns in the Adi Granth Sahib. Correct. The fifth preceptor, Guru Arjan, compiled Baba Guru Nanak’s hymns, with those of his four successors and poets like Baba Farid, Ravidas and Kabir, in the Adi Granth Sahib.
(B) Guru Tegh Bahadur laid the foundation of the Khalsa Panth. Incorrect. Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth preceptor, laid the foundation of the Khalsa Panth (army of the pure). Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth guru, whose compositions Guru Gobind Singh added to the scripture.
(C) Guru Nanak composed the Guru Granth Sahib. Incorrect. The Guru Granth Sahib took shape in the late seventeenth century, when Guru Gobind Singh included the compositions of Guru Tegh Bahadur in the scripture compiled by Guru Arjan. Guru Nanak’s hymns are part of it, but he did not compose the whole scripture.
(D) Mirabai was a Maratha princess. Incorrect. According to the bhajans attributed to her, Mirabai was a Rajput princess from Merta in Marwar, married against her wishes to a prince of the Sisodia clan of Mewar.
(E) Mirabai was a Rajput princess. Correct. She was a Rajput princess from Merta in Marwar, perhaps the best-known woman poet of the bhakti tradition.
NCERT (2025-26): “8.2 Baba Guru Nanak and the Sacred Word … It appears that Baba Guru Nanak did not wish to establish a new religion, but after his death his followers consolidated their own practices and distinguished themselves from both Hindus and Muslims. The fifth preceptor, Guru Arjan, compiled Baba Guru Nanak’s hymns along with those of his four successors and other religious poets like Baba Farid, Ravidas (also known as Raidas) and Kabir in the Adi Granth Sahib. These hymns, called ‘gurbani’, are composed in various languages. In the late seventeenth century the tenth preceptor, Guru Gobind Singh, included the compositions of the ninth guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, and this scripture was called the Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Gobind Singh also laid the foundation of the Khalsa Panth (army of the pure) and defined its five symbols: uncut hair, a dagger, a pair of shorts, a comb and a steel bangle. Under him the community got consolidated as a socio-religious and military force. 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.…” |