Which of the following (Poetess – Compositions) is not correctly matched?

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Correct — D, Gangabai – Ganesh Dev Leela is the pair that is NOT correctly matched. The other three pairings are sound: Sahajobai (Sahjo Bai) and Daya Bai were both women poet-disciples of the eighteenth-century Delhi saint Charandas — Sahjo Bai wrote Sahaj Prakash (option a) and Daya Bai wrote Vinay Malika (option c). By the official key, the Gangabai–'Ganesh Dev Leela' pairing in (d) is the incorrect match, so it is the answer to this 'odd-one-out' question.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Correctly matched, so NOT the answer. Sahjo Bai, a disciple of Charandas, is well documented as the author of Sahaj Prakash (along with Solah Tithi and Saat Vaar Nirnay).  (b) Treated as correctly matched in the key, so NOT the answer to a 'not correctly matched' question.  (c) Correctly matched, so NOT the answer. Daya Bai, the fellow woman disciple of Charandas, wrote Vinay Malika (1761) along with Daya Bodh.

Concept: The saint Charandas (1703-1782) of Delhi founded the Charandasi sampradaya and had two celebrated women disciples who became noted bhakti poets: Sahjo Bai (Sahajobai) and Daya Bai. Their nirguna-flavoured Hindi verse — on the guru, simplicity and devotion — is a standard part of the medieval Hindi bhakti canon frequently tested in state PSC exams.

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