Medieval India Test - 13

Ashtadhyayi is the work of Panini. He is a known scholar of the ancient times and considered father of linguistics. Ashtadhyayai is his classical Sanskrit work in sutra style treatise on grammar. His theories of noun compounds and morphological analysis still form the basis of modern linguistic theories.

Bāṇabhaá¹­á¹­a (Sanskrit) was a 7^th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harsha Vardhana, who reigned c. 606–647 CE in north India first from Sthanvishvara (Thanesar), and later Kannauj.

Malik Muhammad Jaisi was contemporary of Sher Shah Suri and began writing the epic poem of 'Padmavat' in awadhi language in 1540 AD when Sher Shah was ruling at Delhi. It relates an allegorical fictional story about the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji's desire for the titular Padmavati, the Queen of Chittor. Alauddin Khalji and Padmavati's husband Ratan Sen are historical figures, whereas Padmavati is a fictional character.

Harisena, also called Harishena or Hirisena, was a 4^th-century Sanskrit poet, panegyrist, and government minister. He was an important figure in the court of the Gupta emperor, Samudragupta. His most famous poem, written c. 345 CE, describes the bravery of Samudragupta and is inscribed on the Allahabad Pillar.

The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the month of Chaitra, which is the birthday of Rama, Rama Navami. Ramcharitmanas was composed at Ayodhya, Varanasi and Chitrakoot. India was under the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar (1556-1605 CE) during this period.