Who wrote Kamayani, the best known long poem of the Chhayavad school?

The correct answer is B, Jaishankar Prasad. Prasad, who lived at Varanasi from 1889 to 1937, published Kamayani in 1936; it retells the story of Manu, Shraddha and Ida as an allegory of feeling and intellect and is treated as the chief long poem of Chhayavad. He was also a major dramatist, author of Chandragupta, Skandagupta and Dhruvswamini, and of the story Aakashdeep.

Option A, Nirala, whose family came from Garhakola in Unnao, wrote Ram ki Shakti Puja, Saroj Smriti and Kukurmutta and pioneered free verse in Hindi, but not Kamayani. Option C, Mahadevi Verma of Farrukhabad, the fourth pillar of Chhayavad, wrote the lyric collections Neerja, Deepshikha and Yama. Option D, Harivansh Rai Bachchan of Allahabad, wrote Madhushala and belongs to the Halavad stream. The four names of Chhayavad, Prasad, Nirala, Mahadevi and Pant, are asked with their works, so pair each with one book.