Consider the following pairs : How many pairs given above is/are corre...
Bhavabhuti was a dramatist who lived at Kanyakubja (modern-day Kannauj in U.P) in the early 8th century. He has three surviving plays, namely Malatimadhava, Mahaviracharita and Uttararamacharita. So, Pair (1) is correct.
Hastimalla was a 13th-century Kannada poet and playwright in the Hoysala empire. He wrote Purvapurana. He wrote 8 plays, including Vikrant Kaurava and Subhadra Harana. So, Pair (2) is correct.
Kamandaka’s Nitisara was a work written during the Gupta period (4th century CE). It is a work on polity addressed to the king. Kamandaka’s Nitisara advises the king to be like a florist or milkman in matters of taxation. Just as cows have to be tended to at certain times and milked at others, and just as a florist takes care of his plants and sprinkles water on them, besides cutting them, similarly, the king should help his subjects with money and provisions at certain times and tax them at others. Kamandaka also warns sternly that royal officials who become rich through ill-gotten gains should be bled like a surgeon bleeds a swelling abscess. So, Pair (3) is correct.
Amoghavarsha, or Nripatunga of Manyakheta, was a Rashtrakuta king who is famous for building a new capital city of Manyakheta (identified with modern Malkhed). He was a patron of literature and a scholar himself. He wrote the Kavirajamarga, which is considered to be the earliest Kannada work on poetics.
So, Pair (4) is correct.
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Consider the following pairs : How many pairs given above is/are corre...
Correctly matched pairs:
There are four pairs given in the question, and we need to determine how many of them are correctly matched. Let's evaluate each pair one by one.
Pair 1:
The first pair is not mentioned in the question, so we cannot determine whether it is correctly matched or not. Let's move on to the next pair.
Pair 2:
The second pair is also not mentioned in the question, so we cannot determine whether it is correctly matched or not. Let's move on to the next pair.
Pair 3:
The third pair is not mentioned in the question, so we cannot determine whether it is correctly matched or not. Let's move on to the final pair.
Pair 4:
The fourth pair is mentioned in the question, and according to the correct answer, all four pairs are correctly matched. Therefore, we can conclude that the fourth pair is correctly matched.
Conclusion:
Out of the four pairs given in the question, only one pair is correctly matched. Therefore, the correct answer is option 'D' - all four pairs.