With reference to cultural history of India, consider the following statements : 1. Most of the Tyagaraja Kritis are devotional songs in praise of Lord Krishna. 2. Tyagaraja created several new ragas. 3. Annamacharya and Tyagaraja are contemporaries. 4. Annamacharya kirtanas are devotional songs in praise of Lord Venkateshwara. Which of the statements given above are correct ?

States that the Alvars composed many hymns addressed to Vishnu and that the themes are mostly Krishna's childhood, showing a pattern of bhakti poets focusing their songs on Krishna.

A student could infer that in South Indian Vaishnava song traditions many composers favored Krishna and therefore check whether Tyagaraja, as a South Indian devotional composer, followed this pattern by examining dedications or themes of his Kritis.

Explains that early South Indian bhakti (Alvars) involved singing hymns in praise of Vishnu, indicating a long-standing regional pattern of composing devotional songs to Vishnu-related deities.

Use this regional pattern (Vaishnava hymn tradition) as background to hypothesize that a major Carnatic composer from the same cultural milieu might have many Vaishnava/Krishna pieces, then check Tyagaraja's corpus for subject matter.

Notes that singing compositions of poet-saints became part of temple rituals at shrines and that such saints were associated with chosen deities, showing composers often focused on a primary deity.

A student could look for temple associations or patron deity links for Tyagaraja (e.g., if he was linked to a Vishnu/Krishna shrine) to predict whether many Kritis praise Krishna.

Describes the long bhakti tradition across centuries where saints composed devotional songs in vernaculars, a general rule that devotional composers produced many songs addressed to particular gods.

Apply this general rule to Tyagaraja: as a bhakti-era-style composer, he may have composed primarily devotional kritis to a favored deity; verify by sampling titles/lyrics of his works.

Gives the example of Namadeva, a bhakti poet who wrote many songs (abhangs) in praise of Vithala, illustrating that individual bhakti saints often produced large corpora centered on one deity.

By analogy, a student could test whether Tyagaraja's corpus similarly concentrates on a single deity (Krishna) by checking the extent of devotion-specific compositions in his repertoire.