Which one of the following pairs of composers in different languages and their works on the Mahabharata theme is correctly matched ?

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Q: 52 (IAS/1997)
Which one of the following pairs of composers in different languages and their works on the Mahabharata theme is correctly matched ?

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{'mahabharata theme': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'sarladasa': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'composers': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'different languages': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'marathi': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'bengali': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'kannada': [0, 1, 1, 4], 'kasirama': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'tikkana': [0, 1, 0, 0], 'oriya': [0, 1, 0, 1], 'pampa': [1, 1, 0, 0]}

The question asks which of the provided language and composer pairs correctly matches a composer who has created a piece based on the Mahabharata theme with the language of their work.

Option 1 suggests Sarladasa, but he was not a Bengali poet but a Hindi poet. Option 2 claims Kasirama was an Oriya poet but there is no record of a such a poet. Therefore, options 1 and 2 are not valid.

Option 3 suggests Tikkana but this is also incorrect because Tikkana was a Telugu poet, not a Marathi poet.

Option 4 is the correct answer. Pampa is a well-known Kannada poet who indeed worked on the Mahabharata theme. Hence, he and his work are correctly matched to the Kannada language.