Vikramaditya : Prof. S. Bhattacharya: Sun of Prowess is a title assumed by various ancient Indian kings. Tradition associates the title with a king of Ujjayini who was a repository of prowess & all virtues, & was victorious over the Śakas. The Vikram Era dating from 58-57 BC is attributed to him. But Sober History [of Western & Indian Orientalists] does not know of any such king with the said title ruling in western India in the second half of the first century of the pre-Christian era. It was borne by several historical sovereigns, viz., Chandragupta II (AD 380-415), his grandson Skandagupta (AD 455-67), & several Chālukya kings, Viz., Vikramāditya I (655-80), Vikramāditya II (AD 733-46), Tribhuvanmalla (ASS 1009-16), & Vikramāditya or Vikramanka (AD 1076-1125). Of these several kings Chandragupta II, the 3rd Gupta emperor, who defeated the Śaka satraps, who had his capital Ujjaiyini & whose reign was marked by great intellectual achievements as well as by all-round peace & prosperity & in whose reign Kālidāsa probably (sic) flourished has been considered to have had the best claims for being considered as the original king Vikramāditya who later on passed into legends. [Bhattacharya based his article Orientalist Bhandārkar’s History of the Deccan]
... lived, when the city of wolves became the abode of men, bartered her savage prosperity for a splendid decline. Yes, the fullness of the flower is the sure prelude of decay. Look at the India of Vikramaditya. How gorgeous was her beauty! how Olympian the voices of her poets! how sensuous the pencil of her painters! how languidly voluptuous the outlines of her sculpture! In those days every man was ... justly do, it is beyond the limits of my intellect to discover. Had it not been for these premature civilizations, had it not been for the Athens of Plato, the Rome of the Caesars, the India of Vikramaditya, what would the world be now? It was premature, because barbarism was yet predominant in the world; and it is wholly due to our premature efflorescence that your utilitarians can mount the high ...
... Aurobindo long to see through this self-satisfied glitter. Despite his limited contacts with his motherland, he soon came to understand the unique value of her civilization. "Look at the India of Vikramaditya," he wrote at the age of eighteen in The Harmony of Virtue, a dialogue in the manner of Plato between Keshav, a young Indian, and a few English students. "How gorgeous was her beauty! How Olympian... justly do, it is beyond the limits of my intellect to discover. Had it not been for these premature civilizations, had it not been for the Athens of Plato, the Rome of the Caesars, the India of Vikramaditya, what would the world be now? It was premature, because barbarism was yet predominant in the world; and it is wholly due to our premature efflorescence that your utilitarian can mount the high ...
... later than the great playwright whose time is invariably taken to be associated with a King Vikramaditya. Indian tradition puts him in the reign of the legendary founder of the Vikram Samvat of 57 B.C. Modern scholars mostly connect him with the third of the Imperial Guptas -Chandragupta II, titled Vikramaditya, who is generally dated to 380-414 A.D. R. C. Majumdar admits that there is no decisive reason... of Alexander the Great and flourished as a king in the immediate post-Alexandrine epoch was not Chandragupta Maurya but Chandragupta I, founder of the Imperial Gupta dynasty. Then Chandragupta II Vikramaditya would mount the throne around 260 B.C. and Shankara, along with Kumarila Bhatta, might have lived not long after that monarch's contemporary Kalidasa. This would extend Shankara's possible antiquity ...
... court in Ujjain. But various kings in the history of ancient India called themselves by that title, Vikramaditya meaning "Sun of valour". Some scholars identify this Vikramaditya with the King who defeated the Shakas and established the Samvat era in 57 BC in Ujjain. Some others claim that the Vikramaditya in question is Chandragupta II (c. AD 375-414) of the Gupta dynasty. Various other dates have been ...
... with, foster and lend itself to his peculiar powers. This they found in the splendid & luxurious city of Ujjaini, the capital of the great nation of the Malavas, who consolidated themselves under Vikramaditya in the first century before Christ. Here they set the outcome of their endeavour & called him Kalidasa. The country of Avunti had always played a considerable part in our ancient history for which... of the Jadhavas and finally to Dravidian Vijayanagara, the last considerable seat of independent Hindu culture & national greatness. The consolidation of Page 154 the Malavas under Vikramaditya took place in 56 BC, and from that moment dates the age of Malava pre-eminence, the great era of the Malavas afterwards called the Samvat era. It was doubtless subsequent to this date that Kalidasa ...
... evidenced by the order of his works, are all lost in a thick cloud of uncertainty and oblivion. It was once thought an established fact that he lived & wrote in the 6ṭḥ century at the court of Harsha Vikramaditya, the Conqueror of the Scythians. That position is now much assailed, and some would place him in the third or fourth century; others see ground to follow popular tradition in making him a contemporary ...
... hand breathes of the dignified and confident silence of the acknowledged Master. No apology is needed; none is volunteered. The prologue of this play contains an apparent allusion to the great Vikramaditya, Kalidasa's patron, and tradition seems to hint, if it does not assert, connection of a kind between the plot of the drama and, perhaps, some episode in the King's life. At any rate the name of ...
... 5-7 with fn. 4 of p. 7. Page 346 Sunga-tradition happened to be popular in those centuries. Witness Kālidāsa, who flourished either under the third Gupta emperor, Chandragupta II Vikramaditya - that is, within a hundred years of Sandrocottus, according to us - or under that hero of legend, Vikramāditya of Ujjayinī, connected with the founding of the era of 57 B.C. One of Kālidāsa's ...
... of my sister Suprabha, who got them from Lilou Patel.) - The temple was in existence at least as far back as the second century AD, asserts Jouveau-Dubreuil. 5 "The Chalukya monarch Vikramaditya II (733-746 AD)," writes R. C. Majumdar, "then entered Kanchi, which he did not destroy, and donated heaps of gold to the Rajasimheswara temple and other shrines which had been built by Narasimhavarman ...
... instrument with but one string to it. Except the old poet Bharatchandra, no supreme genius had taken it in hand; hence while prose hardly existed except in Baital Pachisi and some other tales about Vikramaditya, Bengali verse had very little to recommend it beyond a certain fatiguing sweetness. Virility, subtlety, scope, these were wanting to it. Then came Madhu Sudan and Bankim, and, like Terpander and ...
... This leads to two fascinating discoveries when linked with other Mandasor inscriptions: that the Malawa ruler Yasodharman (Malawa 589, i.e. 122 B.C.) might be the source of the legend of Vikramaditya; and that Mihirakula whom he defeated was a Saka and not, as supposed by historians without adequate evidence, a Huna. Sethna exposes yet another Fleetian conjecture regarding Skandagupta battling ...
... while some others place him in the 6th or 7th century AD. According to some, he was a grammarian; according to some others, he was a king. According to one tradition, Bhartrihari was a brother of Vikramaditya. The famous Chinese traveller, Itsing, who came to India in the 7th century AD, speaks of Bhartrihari and his works of grammar. According to his account, Bhartrihari must have lived in the first ...
... aspiring souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X, a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather ...
... Buddhism and Jainism (iii) Invasion of Alexander the Great (iv) Chandragupta Maurya (v) Ashoka III (i) Kushans and Kanishka (ii) Chandragupta, Samundragupta and Vikramaditya (iii) Gupta Period: the Golden Age of India (iv) Kalidasa, Varahamihira, Aryabhatt, Brahmgupta (v) Fa-Hieun's account of India IV (i) Harsha Vardhana (ii) ...
... souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X , a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather ...
... He changed the dhoti and shirt for group uniform. This was a new Bhola-da now. His step higher, the look and smile more confident (like the change that came over anyone sitting on the ruins of Vikramaditya’s throne). He was about to call on all his mental and physical faculties to learn and teach the Mass Exercises. This was a year-long passion, from the day the Mass Exercises book was out, around ...
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