HISTORY
BUDDHISM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Kanishka
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Ashoka
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Samudragupta
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Ajatshatru
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Kanishka. Ashvaghosha was a philosopher and poet who is considered India’s greatest poet before Kalidasa (5th century) and the father of Sanskrit drama. He popularized the style of Sanskrit poetry known as kavya. Ashvaghosha adorned the court of Kanishka.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ashvaghosha was a poet in the court of King Kanishka. Ashvaghosha and other Buddhist scholars from Kanishka’s period (around 1900 years ago) began writing in Sanskrit.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was a great patron of Buddhism. Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara. Ashvaghosh was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India while Vasumitra was a scholar in his court who headed the 4th Buddhist Council.
Detailed explanation-4: -Buddhacharita (Sanskrit: , romanized: Buddhacaritam; transl. Acts of the Buddha) is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa of Sāketa (modern Ayodhya), composed in the early second century CE.