Important Things

Poet

Patron

Contribution

Amarasimha

Chandragupta II

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Ashvaghosa

Kanishka

Buddha Charitra (a biography of Buddha), Saundarananda

Banabhatta

Harshvardhan

Kadambari, Harsha Charita

Bharavi

Yasodharman

Kiratarjuniyam (about Kirat and Arjun)

Bhavabhuti

Yasovarman

Malatimadhava, Mahaviracharita

Dandin

Narsimhavarman

Dasakumaracarita, Kavyadarsa

Harisena

Samudragupta II

Prayag Prashasti on Allahabad Pillar inscription

Jayadev

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Geet Govinda (Krishna and Radha)

Jinasena

Amoghavarsha

Harivamsa Purana

Kalidasa

Chandragupta II

Kumarasambhava, Raghuvamsa, Meghdoota, Ritusambara. His plays are Abhijnana Shakuntalam, Vikramorvashi, and Malvikaganimithram.

Magha

King Varmalata

Sisupalavadha (about the killing of Shishupal)

Rajashekhar

Mahindrapala

Kavyamimamsa, and Karpuramanjari (written to please his wife in Sauraseni Prakrit).

Ravikirti

Pulkesin II

Aihole inscription

Shudraka

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Mrichchakatikam

Thiruvalluvar

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Thirukkural (Tamil epic)

Vishakhadatta

Harshavardhan

Mudra Rakshas and Devichandraguptam

Foreign Envoys

• He was a Persian scholar.
• He was also an ambassador of Persia.
• He visited India during the rule of Deva Raya II of Vijayanagar.

• He was a Persian scholar.
• He accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni and wrote a book titled ‘Tahqiq-i-hind’.
• He was the first Muslim scholar to study India.
• He is considered the father of Indology.

• Al-Masudi was An Arab traveller.
• In his book Muruj-ul-Zehab he has explained about his journey.

• Captain William Hawkins led the first expedition of the English East India Company to India in 1609.
• He visited India during the reign of Jahangir.
• He carried a personal letter from King James I of England.
• He did not succeed in getting Jahangir’s permission to start a factory.

• He was a Chinese Buddhist monk.
• He visited India during the reign of Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II).
• He is known for his visit to Lumbini.
• His voyage is described in his travelogue “Record of Buddhist Kingdoms”.

• He was a French physician and traveller.
• He visited India during 1658 and 1671.
• He was the personal physician of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
• ‘Travels in the Mughal Empire’ was written by Francois Bernier.
• The book mainly talks about the rules of Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb.

• He was a Chinese traveller.
• He visited India during the supremacy of Harsha Vardhana.
• Si-yu-ki or ‘The Records of the Western World’ was written by him.

• He was a Moroccan traveller.
• He visited India during the rule of Mohammed Bin Tughlaq.
• Rihla is a book written by Ibn Batuta.

• He was a European traveller.
• He visited Southern India during the reign of Rudramma Devi of the Kakatiyas.

• He was the ambassador of Seleucus.
• He visited India during the supremacy of Chandragupta Maurya.
• Chandragupta was known to the Greeks as Sandrocottus.
• He was also the author of the book ‘Indica’.

• He was an Italian merchant.
• He visited India during the reign of Deva Raya I of Vijayanagar.

• Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat.
• He visited India during the reign of Jahangir in 1615.
• He came to seek protection for an English factory at Surat.
• His “Journal of the Mission to the Mughal Empire” is a treasured contribution to the history of India.