Bhavabhuti
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Bhavabhūti was a classical Sanskrit scholar, poet, and playwright of eighth-century India. He is considered a key successor to Kalidasa and is often regarded as matching his literary stature. His best
Mālatī and Mādhava from Bhavabhūti’s Mālatīmādhava, shown in a c. 17th–18th century pigment pntg.
Lalitaditya Muktapida
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Lalitaditya alias Muktapida was a Karkota monarch of the Kashmir region in the Indian subcontinent. The 12th-century Kashmiri chronicler Kalhana characterizes Lalitaditya as a "world conqueror", credi
Bhavabhuti
…been the court poet of king Yashovarman of Kannauj. Kalhana, the 12th-century historian, places him in the entourage of the king, who was defeated by Lalitaditya Muktapida, king of Kashmir, in 736 AD. The play is set in the city of Padmavati. The king desires that his minister's daughter Malati marry a youth called Nandana…
Ruins at Parihasapura
The Wangath Temple complex, identified as the Bhutesha shrine mentioned in Kalhana's account
Restored impression by J. Duguid (1870–73)
Ruins in summer of 2011