Which of the following Bhakti saints’ hymns are not compiled in the Adi Granth Sahib?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Meerabai
The Adi Granth Sahib was compiled by Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru. Along with the hymns of Baba Guru Nanak and his four successors, he included the hymns of other religious poets: Baba Farid, Ravidas (also known as Raidas) and Kabir. Mirabai, the Rajput princess devoted to Krishna, is not among them; her bhajans were passed on orally for centuries.
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.… 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.…” |