Q. Whose work is Visakha vijaya
Solution:
- KeralaVarma Valiya Koil Thampuran known as KERALA KALIDASAN as he translated Kalidasa’s Sakunthalam to Malayalam as Abhijnana Sakunthalam.
- Visakha vijaya was another famous work.
Kerala Varma is also known as the Kalidasa of Kerala. - Kerala Varma has been called “a colossal Renaissance figure in 19th century Kerala”.
- Kerala Varma was in close touch with literary movements in both northern and southern parts of Kerala, including Bhashaposhini Sabha and magazines such as Vidya Vinodini and Malayala Manorama.
- His work Abhijnana Sakunthalam(1898), a translation of Kalidasa’s Sakunthalam, is one of the most acclaimed works of poetry in Malayalam from that period.
- It influenced a number of other translations of Sanskrit classics into Malayalam and was a success on the stage.
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