Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Many Sanskrit works on music were translated into Persian during the medieval period.
Reason (R): The early chisti sufis were found of musical assemblies called, 'sama'.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

This MCQ is part of the UP PSC Previous Year Questions (PYQs) series, focusing on UPPSC Prelims 2018 (GS Paper I)