Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Rajasthani Schools of Painting

Question:

What does 'Rasikapriya' aim to incite in the audience?

Options:

Spiritual enlightenment

Aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers

Political awareness

Economic prosperity

Correct Answer:

Aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers

Explanation:

Answer: Aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers
'Rasikapriya' was composed to incite aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers.

Rasikapriya, translated as ‘The Connoisseur’s Delight’, is replete with complex poetic interpretations and was composed to incite aesthetic pleasure to elite courtiers. 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.