‘S’ will be the first part of the given sequence as it talks of the anecdote mentioned in S1, that is, ‘there was a great scholar’. ‘P’ will come next as the pronoun ‘he’ is used in the context of ‘a great scholar’. It will be followed by ‘Q’ because it talks about an ‘idol of God’ referred in ‘P’. ‘R’ will come next as it now talks about the moment when it was about to complete (in the previous part it was nearing completion only). Hence, SPQR is the right sequence. Thus, option (c) is correct.