Q81. With reference to the history of ancient India Bhavabhuti Hastimalla and Kshemeshvara were famous
a) Jain monks
b) Playwrights
c) Temple architects
d) Philosophers
Answer: (b)
- Bhavabhuti was an 8th-century scholar of India is noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit. The works attributed to the poet Bhavabhuti were Mahaviracharita (depicting the early life of Rama), Malatimadhava a play based on the romance of Malati and Madhava and Uttararamacharita (depicts Rama’s coronation, the abandonment of Sita and their reunion).
- Hastimalla was a 13th-century Kannada poet and writer in the Hoysala Empire. He wrote Purvapurana.
- Kshemeshvara (990 – c. 1070 CE) was an 11th-century Sanskrit poet from Kashmir in India. One of the import
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