Question

Match List-I with List-II and choose your answer from the codes given below.

List - I	List - II
a. Indica	i. Banabhatta
b. Harshacharita	ii. Chandbardai
c. Prithviraj Raso	iii. Megasthanese
d. Rajtarangini	iv. Kalhana

1. a - iv, b - iii, c - i, d - ii
2. a - i, b - ii, c - iv, d - iii
3. a - iii, b - i, c - ii, d - iv
4. a - ii, b - iv, c - iii, d - i

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : a - iii, b - i, c - ii, d - iv

The correct answer is a - iii, b - i, c - ii, d - iv.

• Indica is an account of India under the reign of the Maurya Dynasty. 
  • Greek writer Megasthenes was the author of Indica. 
  • Unfortunately, the original book is now lost, but its fragments survived in the works of Greek and Latin writers. These earliest works are by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Arrian, and Pliny.
• Harshacharita is the biography of Indian emperor Harshavardhana, who ruled North India from 606 to 647 CE and was a ruler of the Vardhana dynasty.
  • It was written by Banabhatta, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE.
  • He was the Asthana Kavi, i.e. Court Poet, of Harshavardhana.
  • Harshacharita was the first composition of Banabhatta and marks the beginning of the writing of historical poetic works in the Sanskrit language.
  • It narrates the biography of the emperor Harsha in eight chapters.
• The " Prithviraj Raso" is a Braj Bhasha poem.
  • The poem is about the 12th-century Indian Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan.
  • The poem is written by Chand Bardai.
  • Chand Bardai immortalized Prithviraj Chauhan's life in the poem Prithviraj Raso.
  • The poem describes the love and abduction of Raja Jai Chandra's daughter of Kannauj by Prithviraj Chauhan.
  • The earlier manuscripts of the poem were discovered at Dharanojwali village of Gujarat.
  • The oldest manuscripts are from the 16th century. It is written in the Lata Apabhramsha language.
• The Rajtarangani composed by Kalhana in the twelfth century is the main source of the History of Medieval Kashmir.
  • It was written in Sanskrit by Kashmiri historian Kalhana in the 12th century CE.
  • Rajtaringini comprises 7826 verses and is divided into eight books called Tarangas.