Which of the following (Poetess – Compositions) is not correctly matched?
- (a)Sahajobai – Sahaj Prakash
- (b)Son Kumari – Poem of Swarn Beli
- (c)Daya Bai – Vinay Malika
- (d)Gangabai – Ganesh Dev Leela
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.
- (a)Sahajobai – Sahaj Prakash — 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)Son Kumari – Poem of Swarn Beli — Treated as correctly matched in the key, so NOT the answer to a 'not correctly matched' question.
- (c)Daya Bai – Vinay Malika — Correctly matched, so NOT the answer. Daya Bai, the fellow woman disciple of Charandas, wrote Vinay Malika (1761) along with Daya Bodh.
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.
This is an 'odd-one-out' matching question: three of the four poetess-composition pairs are correct and you must spot the wrong one. The reliable anchors are Sahjo Bai → Sahaj Prakash and Daya Bai → Vinay Malika (both firmly attested disciples of Charandas). The official key marks the fourth pair, Gangabai – Ganesh Dev Leela, as the mismatch, so it is the intended answer.
- Sahjo Bai (Sahajobai) and Daya Bai were women poet-disciples of Sant Charandas.
- Sahjo Bai's works include Sahaj Prakash, Solah Tithi and Saat Vaar Nirnay.
- Daya Bai's works include Daya Bodh and Vinay Malika (1761).
- Per the official UPPSC key, the Gangabai – 'Ganesh Dev Leela' pairing is the one not correctly matched.
Sahjo Bai and Daya Bai (disciples of Charandas) are correctly paired; the key flags the Gangabai pairing as wrong.
- Reversing Sahjo Bai and Daya Bai with each other's compositions.
- Assuming an unfamiliar-looking pair must be the wrong one — verify the two anchors (Sahaj Prakash, Vinay Malika) first.
UPPSC favours author-composition (or saint-work) matching with a 'not correctly matched' twist — confirm the pairs you know and let the odd one out fall out.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The women poets Sahjo Bai and Daya Bai were disciples of which saint?
- (a)Kabir
- (b)Charandas
- (c)Dadu Dayal
- (d)Guru Nanak
Answer(b) Charandas — the Delhi saint whose two most famous disciples were the poets Sahjo Bai and Daya Bai.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which composition is attributed to the poet-saint Daya Bai?
- (a)Sahaj Prakash
- (b)Vinay Malika
- (c)Bijak
- (d)Sur Sagar
Answer(b) Vinay Malika — written by Daya Bai (Sahaj Prakash is Sahjo Bai's; Bijak is Kabir's; Sur Sagar is Surdas's).