A. deductive
B. inductive
C. formalist
D. archetypal
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8381. What is referred as the proper knowledge of language that helps to satisfy desires?
A. rasa
B. natyashastra
C. kamadhenu
D. dhwani
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8418. Which is the earliest systematic work on Indian dramaturgy?
A. kavyalankara
B. natyashastra
C. kavyadarsha
D. nirupana
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8415. Who critiqued the sphota doctrine of the grammarians and the Buddhist linguistic doctrine of apoha?
A. dandin
B. abhinavagupta
C. udbhata
D. bhamaha
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8412. Which critic gave great importance to the gunas and doshas (merits and defects) in poetry?
A. kalidasa
B. anandavardhana
C. dandin
D. rajashekhara
✅ The correct answer is option C.
8409. Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?
A. abhinavagupta
B. anandavardhana
C. kshemendra
D. bhoja
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8406. Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?
A. anandavardhana
B. rajashekhara
C. abhinavagupta
D. kuntaka
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8403. Which tailanga scholar who was a prominent poet in the court of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was conferred the title Panditaraja?
A. jagannatha
B. mahimabhatta
C. kshemendra
D. bhoja
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8401. In which work by Vamana was the word sahrudaya used first in the technical sense of a competent reader of poetry?
A. agnipurana
B. dwanyaloka
C. kavyaloka
D. kavyalamkara
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8399. Which category of prathibha refers to the creative ability of the poet?
A. karayitri
B. bhavayitri
C. abida
D. anumana
✅ The correct answer is option A.