Explanation:

Karpuramanjari is a drama written by Rajashekhara in Prakrit. Rajashekhara has been highly esteemed for his proficiency in the Prakrit. He was the court poet of the Gurjara Pratiharas. Rajashekhara also wrote the Kavyamimamsa. The work is essentially a practical guide for poets that explains the elements and composition of a good poem.

Karpuramanjari contains four Acts called Javanikantara. It tells us how king Candapala marries Karpura-Manjari,the daughter of the Kuntala King, and thus becomes a paramount sovereign.

The jealousy of the queen, and the machinations that bring the king and the heroine together, from the plot of the play, the Adbhuta Rasa is represented by the sorcerer Bhairvananda and his tricks.

Kathasaritsagara was composed around 1070 CE by a Kashmiri Shaivite Brahmin called Somadeva. In a short poem at the end of his work, Somadeva states that he was the court poet of King Anantadeva of Kashmir and that he composed his Kathasaritsagara for the amusement of Queen Suryavati, wife of King Anantadeva, to distract her mind from its usual occupation of ‘worshipping Shiva and acquiring learning from the great books.

Brihatkatha is a mammoth work composed by Gunadhya. It is a work that has been given the highest rank beside epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana. It is a vast collection of tales dating from the early centuries of the common era. The stories generally had a secular character and imparted nuggets of wisdom. Nothing is definitively known about Gunadhya's life.

He composed Brihatkatha based on three sources. From Ramayana, he got the motif of the search of a husband for a wife cruelly stolen from him soon after a happy marriage. From Buddhist legends and other traditions of Ujjain and Kausambi, he was familiar with the tales of Pradyuta, Mahasena and Udayana. He also knew many tales of sea voyages and strange adventures. From the latter source and Buddhist legends, he derived the conception of the monarch who is the secular counterpart of the Buddha.

Hence all pairs are correctly matched and option (d) is the correct answer.