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The Prayag Prashasti, the inscription recording Samudragupta's conquests, was composed by whom?

  1. A.Harisena
  2. B.Banabhatta
  3. C.Kalhana
  4. D.Ravikirti

Correct answer

A. Harisena

Explanation

The correct answer is A, Harisena. Harisena, a court poet and officer of Samudragupta, composed the eulogy engraved on the Ashokan pillar now standing in the Allahabad fort at Prayagraj; it lists the kings uprooted in the north, those of the south who were defeated and reinstated, and the frontier rulers who submitted, and it is the main source for the reign.

Option B is wrong because Banabhatta served Harshavardhana in the seventh century and wrote the Harshacharita and Kadambari. Option C is wrong because Kalhana wrote the Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir, in the twelfth century. Option D is wrong because Ravikirti composed the Aihole inscription of the Chalukya ruler Pulakeshin II, a southern record of a later date. The pillar also carries an inscription of Jahangir, so one shaft bears the words of Ashoka, of a Gupta poet and of a Mughal emperor, a detail papers like to ask.

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