Consider the following pair of the writer and their works Poet/Writer Works Al-Beruni Kitab-ul-Hind Firdausi Kitab-ul-Yamini Ibn Battuta Rihla Which of the following pairs given above is/are correct?
Consider the following pair of the writer and their works Poet/Writer Works Al-Beruni Kitab-ul-Hind Firdausi Kitab-ul-Yamini Ibn Battuta Rihla Which of the following pairs given above is/are correct? Correct Answer 1 and 3 only
The correct answer is 1 and 3 only.
Key Points
- In 1017, when Sultan Mahmud invaded Khwarizm, he took several scholars and poets back to his capital, Ghazni.
- Al-Biruni was one of them.
- He arrived in Ghazni as a hostage.
- Al- Biruni's Kitab-ul-Hind, written in Arabic, is simple and lucid. Hence pair 1 is correct.
- Ibn Battuta's book of travels, called Rihla, written in Arabic, provides extremely rich and interesting details about the social and cultural life in the subcontinent in the fourteenth century. Hence pair 3 is correct.
- Firdausi was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh, which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran. Hence pair 2 is not correct.
Additional Information
- The Gita Govinda is a work composed by the 12th-century Hindu poet, Jayadeva.
- It describes the relationship between Krishna and the gopis of Vrindavana, and in particular one gopi named Radha.
- The Mitakṣara is best known for its theory of "inheritance by birth."
- It was written by Vijnanesvara, a scholar in the Western Chalukya court in the late eleventh and early twelfth century.
- Al-Kitab al-Yamini is a history of the early Ghaznavid dynasty, composed in Arabic sometime after 1020 by Muhammad ibn Utbi.
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