Which monarch is credited with opening a new horizon for Oriya poets at the…

Concept

In literal reading comprehension, the answer must be anchored in an explicit statement from the passage rather than in outside knowledge.

Identify the role or action asked about, locate the matching sentence, and keep the person named in that sentence.

Application

1. The stem asks for a monarch connected with the new horizon for Odia poets at the beginning of the fifteenth century.

2. The passage says that Kapilendra Dev became the monarch of Odisha during this period.

3. It then links his victories, encouragement of writing in Odia, acceptance of Odia as the state language, and royal orders in Odia with the creative literary atmosphere.

Contrast

• Sarala Das is presented as a poet who emerged from that atmosphere, not as the monarch described in the passage.

• Tulsidas belongs to the later North Indian devotional tradition and is not the ruler discussed in this passage.

• Kalidasa is a classical Sanskrit poet and dramatist from a different period, not the ruler discussed in this passage.

Result

Therefore, the monarch credited in the passage is Kapilendra Dev.