Question

Hemchandra wrote Kumarpal Charita based on the life of the Solanki King of Gujarat
a.Kumarpal
b.Raja Ranakdev
c.Raja Karandev
d.Raja Tribhuvanpal

Answer 1

Hint: Acharya Hemchandra, who was an Indian Jain. He was also a scholar, mathematician, poet, and polymath. He also wrote on grammar, philosophy and contemporary history, etc.

Step by step answer:
 Kumarpala was an Indian KING of the Solanki dynasty of Gujarat. He also ruled out Gujarat and the surrounding areas from his capital Anahilapataka. Kumarpal was known for his patronage towards Jainism and many medieval Jainism scholars also wrote about Kumarpala. Some of the scholars who wrote about him are Hemchandra, Prabhachandra, Sonaprabha, etc. Kumarpala was more successful than Jayasimha Siddharaja, who was his relative and also hated Kumarpala. Hemchandra when start writing about Kumarpala, he does not mention Kumarpala’s life before his ascension to the throne. This is very unusual because when Hemchandra wrote about the life history or biography of others, he mentioned everything about their early lives but in this biography, he does not mention anything. A historian named Ashoke Majumdar theorizes this might be done because Hemchandra itself plays an important role in the early life of the Kumarpala. Another writer named Yashpal describes how the king’s early life was, in a drama whose name was Maharaja- Putrajaya.

So, the correct answer is Option A

Note Kumarpal Charita was a biography of the king of the Solanki dynasty in Gujarat. This book was written by a great scholar and also a poet whose name was Hemchandra Acharya. In this book, he describes many heroic and adventurous tales of the King Kumarpal Hemchandra was also a part of the early life of king Kumarpal that’s why he does not write about the early life of King Kumarpal in his biography.