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In the context of the ancient history of India, consider the following statements regarding grammarian Dandin :
1. He was contemporary of Chandragupta Maurya. 2. Dashakumaracharita, a prose romance was written by him.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
1 only
2 only
Both 1 and 2
Neither 1 nor 2
Dandin (550 AD -649 AD) was a Sanskrit writer of prose romances and expounder on poetics. He wrote mainly in Sanskrit Language. He lived in Kanchipuram. o Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. 321–c. 297 BCE) and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination. Hence statement 1 is not correct.
Kavyadarsa by him is the earliest existing systematic treatment of poetics in Sanskrit. It was influenced by Bhattikavya. In Kavyadarsa he argues that a poem's beauty is derived from its use of rhetorical devices. He mentions thirty-six types of such devices.
Dandin was the advocate of gunaprasthana. It means that the poetry needed qualities as shlesa, prasada, samata, madhurya, arthavyakti and ojah. He is known for his complex sentences and usage of long compound words. Kavyadarsa is a literary criticism also known as Mirror of poetry.
The Dashakumaracharita by Dandin is a coming-of-age narrative that relates stories of each of the 10 princes in their pursuit of love and their desire to reunite with their friends. The work is imbued both with realistic portrayals of human vice and with supernatural magic, including the intervention of deities in human affairs. Hence statement 2 is correct.
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