Question

wrote ‘Vikramankadeva Charitha’ in praise of Vikramaditya VI.

• A. Pandit Bilhana
• B. Chalukya Vikrama
• C. Vignaneshwara
• D. Sarvagn Chakravarthy

Answer 1

The correct option is A Pandit Bilhana

The famous scholar Pandit Bilhana wrote ‘Vikramankadeva Charitha’ in praise of Vikramaditya VI. This book is also considered a biography of Vikramadithya. Bilhana was a Kashmiri poet. As Bilhana was alone there he wrote the Caurapancasika a fifty stanza Love poem in the wait of Judgement as it was unknown whether he would live alive or die in the prison only. It is still unknown what was the fate of Bilhana whether he was sent into exile or died on the gallows.