Question

Agnimitra was the hero of Kalidasa’s___
A. Abhijnana Shakuntalam
B. Malavikagnimitra
C. Mega Dutta
D. Mrichhakatikam

Answer 1

Hint: The second king of the Shunga dynasty of northern India was Agnimitra. In 149 BC, he succeeded his father, Pushyamitra Shunga.

Step by step solution:
Agnimitra was the hero of the Malavikagnimitram of Kalidasa. He belonged to the Baimbika family, while he was listed as a Shunga by the Puranas.
Malavikagnimitra is a play by Kālidāsa in Sanskrit. It was his first play. The play tells the tale of Agnimitra's love for the beautiful handmaiden of his chief queen, the Shunga Emperor of Vidisha. He falls in love with an image of Mālavikā, an exiled servant girl. He has to turn to his jester's assistance and play a game of subterfuge just to look at the new kid. When the queen discovers the love of her husband for this child, she is infuriated and imprisoned by Mālavikā, but as luck would have it she is eventually discovered to be of royal descent and is recognized as one of his queens.
The Malavikagnimitra gives us the names of three of his queens: Dharini, Iravati, and Malavika. A war broke out during the reign of Agnimitra between the Shungas and the neighboring Vidarbha kingdom, according to the Malavikagnimitra. Before the rise of the Shunga’s, when a former Mauryan sachiva (minister) installed his brother-in-law Yajnasena on the throne, Vidarbha had become independent from the Mauryan Empire. Madhavasena, Yajnasena's nephew, sought assistance from Agnimitra to overthrow his cousin but was captured and imprisoned while crossing the Vidarbha border.

Note: The Malavikagnimitra is a five-act drama based on a love-intrigue set on foot by Vidisa's King Agnimitra, who is the play's hero, Mālavikā, a princess in the service of Heroine Dharini, the chief queen. The scene is set in and around Vidisha.