books & authors section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Panchatantra — Pt. Vishnu Sharma. Vishnu Sharma was a scholar and author who had written the Panchatantra, collection of fables. The exact period of the composition of the Panchatantra is uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 300 CE. Some scholars place him in the 3rd century BCE.

Mudra Rakshas — Vishakhadatta. Vishakhadatta was an Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright. Although Vishakhadatta furnishes the names of his father and grandfather as Maharaja Bhaskaradatta and Maharaja Vateshvaradatta in his political drama Mudra Rakshas, we know little else about him. only two of his plays, the Mudra Rakshas and the Devichandraguptam are known to us.

Prem Vatika — Raskhan. Raskhan was a poet who was both a Muslim and a follower of Lord Krishna. His real name was Sayyad Ibrahim and is known to have lived in Pihani.

Astadhyayi — Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian from ancient India. He was born in Pushkalavati, Gandhara, in the modern-day Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Answer: (a)