Which one of the following pairs of composers in different languages and their works on the Mahabharata theme is correctly matched?
- Sarladasa — Bengali
- Kasirama — Oriya
- Tikkana — Marathi
- Pampa — Kannada
Explanation
Option (d) is correct
- The correctly matched pair is Pampa — Kannada. Pampa authored Vikramarjuna Vijaya (also known as Pampa Bharata), a celebrated Kannada adaptation of the Mahabharata. Sarala Dasa is associated with the Odia (Oriya) Mahabharata tradition, not Bengali literature, while Tikkana belonged to the Telugu Mahabharata tradition rather than Marathi literature. The Kashidasi Mahabharat (or Kasirama Mahabharata) is the most celebrated Bengali adaptation of the ancient epic, originally written by the medieval poet Kashiram Das around the turn of the 16th to 17th century.
