Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Mahendra Verman I
The correct answer is Mahendra Verman I. - Mattabilasaprahasana or Mattavilasa Prahasana (English: A Farce of Drunken Sport) is a short one-act Sanskrit play.
- It is one of the two great one-act plays written by Pallava King Mahendra Varman I (571– 630C.E.) at the beginning of the seventh century in Tamil Nadu.
- Mattavilasa Prahasana is a satire that pokes fun at the peculiar aspects of the heretic Kapalika and Pasupata Saivite sects, Buddhists, and Jainism.
- The setting of the play is Kanchipuram, the capital city of the Pallava kingdom in the seventh century.
- The play revolves around the drunken antics of a Kapalika mendicant, Satyasoma, his woman, Devasoma, and the loss and recovery of their skull-bowl.
- The cast of characters consists of Kapali or Satysoma, an unorthodox Saivite mendicant, Devasoma, Satysoma’s female partner, a Buddhist Monk, whose name is Nagasena, Pasupata, a member of another unorthodox Saivite order, and a Madman.
- The act describes a dispute between a drunken Kapali and a Buddhist monk.
- Bharavi
- Bharavi was a Sanskrit poet known for his Mahakavya, the Kirātārjunīya in 18 cantos based on an episode from the Mahabharata.
- Dandin
- Daṇḍin was an Indian Sanskrit grammarian and author of prose romances.
- He is one of the best-known writers in Asian history.
- Narsimha Verman I
- Narasimha Varman I was one of the most famous Pallava kings and was successful to maintain the supremacy which his father Mahendravarman had established.
- He won over the Chalukya king, Pulakesin II to avenge his father’s defeat.
- He inherited his father’s love for art and sculpture.
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