alleryWhich one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa?
AKavyalankara
BNatyashastra
CMadhyama-vyayoga
DMahabhashya
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Madhyama-vyayoga
Answer: C. Madhyama-vyayoga is attributed to playwright Bhasa.
Bhasa (c. 3rd-4th century CE or earlier) was a major Sanskrit playwright whose works were rediscovered in 1912 by T. Ganapati Sastri in Kerala.
Thirteen plays are now attributed to him, collectively called the 'Trivandrum Plays' or 'Bhasa Plays'.
Madhyama-vyayoga (The Middle One) is a one-act play from Bhasa's corpus, dramatising a moving episode involving Bhima and his son Ghatotkacha from the Mahabharata.
Distractors fail: (A) Kavyalankara is a treatise on poetics by BHAMAHA.
(B) Natyashastra is the great treatise on dramaturgy by BHARATA Muni.
(D) Mahabhashya is a grammatical commentary on Panini's Ashtadhyayi by PATANJALI.
Source: syllabus Themes in World History + standard Sanskrit literature references.
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