Consider the following statements regarding bhakti traditions in Medieval India 1 The bhakti t...........

Ancient and Medival History Religion and Philosopjhy

Consider the following statements regarding bhakti traditions in Medieval India:

1.The bhakti traditions often classified into saguna and nirguna.

2.The former focused on worship of an abstract form of God and the latter focused on worship of specific deities

respectively.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 only

2 only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

At a different level, historians of religion often classify bhakti traditions into two board categories: saguna (with attributes) and nirguna (without attributes).
Saguna focused on the worship of specific deities such as Shiva, Vishnu and his avatars (incarnations) and forms of the goddess or Devi, all often conceptualized in anthropomorphic forms.
Nirguna bhakti on the other had was worship of an abstract form of god.