Which one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa ?

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Kavyalankara

Natyashastra

Madhyama-vyayoga

Mahabhashya

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The correct option is C.

Bhasa was a celebrated classical Sanskrit playwright who is believed to have lived sometime before Kalidasa. Among the options, ‘Madhyama-vyayoga’ is a well-known one-act play attributed to Bhasa. His works were lost for centuries and rediscovered in 1912 by T. Ganapati Sastri in Kerala. ‘Swapnavasavadattam’ is another famous play attributed to him.

Kavyalankara is a work on poetics. Natyashastra is the foundational treatise on Indian performing arts. Mahabhashya is a famous commentary on Panini’s grammar by Patanjali. These are works by different authors, not Bhasa.

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