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:
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:
Solution
To solve this, I need to identify the time periods of each religious teacher:
(A) Thondaradippodi Azhwar - One of the 12 Azhwars (Vaishnavite saints) of Tamil Nadu, lived around 9th century CE
(C) Basavanna - Founder of Lingayatism in Karnataka, lived approximately 1131-1167 CE (12th century)
(B) Nizamuddin Auliya - Famous Sufi saint of the Chishti order in Delhi, lived 1238-1325 CE (13th-14th century)
(D) Sri Chaitanya - Founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Bengal, lived 1486-1534 CE (15th-16th century)
Hence, Option 1: (A), (C), (B), (D) → This correctly arranges the religious teachers from earliest (9th century Azhwar) to latest (16th century Chaitanya), covering the evolution of devotional movements across different regions of India over seven centuries → correct
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