Rajasthani painters often illustrated poetic and literary texts on love. Match the texts in List-I with what is said about them in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Gita Govinda | I. Tenth chapter titled Baramasa |
| B. Rasamanjari | II. Treatise classifying heroes and heroines |
| C. Rasikapriya | III. Twelfth-century Sanskrit lyrical poem |
| D. Kavipriya | IV. Brajbhasha work of 1591 |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Gita Govinda | (III) Twelfth-century Sanskrit lyrical poem | Jayadeva composed it in the twelfth century. It portrays the mystical love between Radha and Krishna. |
| (B) Rasamanjari | (II) Treatise classifying heroes and heroines | Bhanu Datta’s text classifies nayakas and nayikas. Krishna is not named in it; painters added him as the lover. |
| (C) Rasikapriya | (IV) Brajbhasha work of 1591 | Keshav Das wrote it in Brajbhasha in 1591. It explores states such as love, jealousy and separation. |
| (D) Kavipriya | (I) Tenth chapter titled Baramasa | This other work of Keshav Das has the Baramasa as its tenth chapter. |
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’. Written in Sanskrit, the text is a treatise on rasa and deals with the classification of heroes (nayakas) and heroines (nayikas) in accordance with their age — baal, taruna and praudha; physiognomic traits of appearance, such as padmini, chitrini, shankhini, hastini, etc., and emotional states, such as khandita, vasaksajja, abhisarika, utka, etc. Though Krishna is not mentioned in the text, painters have introduced him as the archetypal lover. 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. Kavipriya, another poetic work by Keshav Das, was written in the honour of Rai Parbin, a celebrated courtesan of Orchha. It is a tale of love and its tenth chapter evocatively titled Baramasa engages with the most enduring climactic description of the 12 months of the year.…” |