Match the poets whose texts were illustrated by Rajasthani painters in List-I with the detail in List-II.
List-I | List-II |
A. Jayadeva | I. Maithil Brahmin of Bihar |
B. Bihari Lal | II. Poet at Lakshmana Sen’s court |
C. Keshav Das | III. At the Jaipur court |
D. Bhanu Datta | IV. Poet at Madhukar Shah’s court |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Jayadeva | (II) Poet at Lakshmana Sen’s court | Jayadeva composed Gita Govinda in the twelfth century and is believed to have been court poet of Lakshmana Sen. |
| (B) Bihari Lal | (III) At the Jaipur court | Bihari Lal is held to have composed his Satsai around 1662 while at the court of Jaipur. |
| (C) Keshav Das | (IV) Poet at Madhukar Shah’s court | Keshav Das composed Rasikapriya in Brajbhasha at this Orchha court. |
| (D) Bhanu Datta | (I) Maithil Brahmin of Bihar | Bhanu Datta, author of Rasamanjari, lived in Bihar in the fourteenth century. |
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Themes of Paintings – An Overview …Composed in the twelfth century by Jayadeva, who is believed to have been the court poet of Lakshmana Sen of Bengal, Gita Govinda, the ‘Song of the Cowherd’, is a lyrical poem in Sanskrit, evoking shringara rasa, portraying the mystical love between Radha and Krishna through worldly imageries. Bhanu Datta, a Maithil Brahmin who lived in Bihar in the fourteenth century, composed another favourite text of artists, Rasamanjari, interpreted as the ‘Bouquet of Delight’.… Composed in Brajbhasha by Keshav Das, the court poet of Raja Madhukar Shah of Orchha in 1591, Rasikapriya explores various emotive states, such as love, togetherness, jilt, jealousy, quarrel and its aftermath, separation, anger, etc., that are common between lovers represented through the characters of Radha and Krishna.… Bihari Satsai, authored by Bihari Lal, constituting 700 verses (satsai), is composed in the form of aphorisms and moralising witticism. It is largely held that he composed the Satsai around 1662 while he was at the court of Jaipur working for Mirza Raja Jai singh as the patron’s name appears in several verses of the Satsai.…” |