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Which Rashtrakuta king composed the works ‘Kavirajamarga’, ‘Ratnamalika’ and ‘Passanotaramalika’?
A
Indra III
B
Amoghavarsa I
C
Krishna III
D
Krishna I
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Amoghavarsa I was the Rashtrakuta king who composed ‘Kavirajamarga’, ‘Ratnamalika’ and ‘Passanotaramalika’. He was an accomplished poet and scholar. His reign of 64 years is one of the longest precisely dated monarchical reigns on record.

Detailed explanation-2: -Notes: ‘Kavirajamarga’ (meaning “Royal Path for Poets”) was written by the famous Rashtrakuta King Amoghavarsha I, who was also famously known as “Nrupatunga”. it is the earliest available writing on rhetoric, poetics and grammar in the Kannada language. It was written around 850 A.D.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amoghavarsha wrote Kaviraja Margam and Ratnamalika. Amoghavarsha was a Rashtrakuta emperor, the greatest ruler of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, and one of the great emperors of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -Amoghavarsha I wrote Kavirajamarga, the earliest surviving literary work in Kannada and Prashnottara Ratnamalika, a religious work in Sanskrit. He was one of the important Kannada emperor ruled Karnataka during Rashtrakuta empire. He was a great patron of culture and a great visionary.

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