Which poet of the Riti period, born at Tikwapur in Kanpur district, wrote the Shivraj Bhushan and Shivabavani?
- A.Bihari
- B.Bhushan
- C.Dev
- D.Matiram
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Bhushan. Bhushan belonged to Tikwapur in the present Kanpur district and wrote the Shivraj Bhushan, Shivabavani and Chhatrasal Dashak in Braj Bhasha, praising Shivaji and Chhatrasal Bundela in the veer rasa at a time when most Riti poets wrote love poetry for courts. He is therefore called the chief poet of valour in the Riti period.
Option A, Bihari, is the poet of the Satsai, a work of seven hundred dohas of love and courtly wit, and he served at the court of Amer. Option C, Dev, is the Riti poet of Itawa known for the Bhavvilas and for his treatment of poetics. Option D, Matiram, was the brother of Bhushan and wrote the Rasraj and Lalit Lalam on poetics, so the family link makes him a strong distractor. A question may name the brothers Chintamani, Bhushan and Matiram together and ask who praised Shivaji.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Punjabi
- B.Urdu
- C.Bhojpuri
- D.Sanskrit
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Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of Uttar Pradesh under the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act, 1951, and an amendment passed in 1989 added Urdu as the second official language of the state.
Read the full explanation →The Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas is composed in which dialect?
- A.Braj Bhasha
- B.Awadhi
- C.Bundeli
- D.Khari Boli
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Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, the Eastern Hindi speech of the Awadh region around Ayodhya, and began the work at Ayodhya in 1574.
Read the full explanation →The Awadhi Sufi romance Padmavat was written by which poet of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Kabir
- B.Malik Muhammad Jayasi
- C.Raskhan
- D.Ghananand
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Jayasi belonged to Jais in the present Amethi district and completed the Padmavat in 1540.
Read the full explanation →Braj Bhasha is chiefly spoken in which part of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Purvanchal around Varanasi and Gorakhpur
- B.The Mathura, Agra and Aligarh region
- C.Bundelkhand around Jhansi
- D.Awadh around Lucknow
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Braj Bhasha is the speech of the Braj tract, which covers Mathura, Agra, Aligarh, Hathras and Etah, and it belongs to the Western Hindi group that descends from Shauraseni Apabhramsha.
Read the full explanation →Bhojpuri, spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is classed under which group of Indo-Aryan speech?
- A.Western Hindi
- B.Eastern Hindi
- C.Bihari group
- D.Pahari group
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Bhojpuri descends from Magadhi Apabhramsha and is grouped with Magahi and Maithili in the Bihari group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan family, a classification made by George Abraham Grierson in the Linguistic Survey of India.
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