The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.129
The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.129
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455 G. Sam. 136-16-. Skandagupta, Kramāditya, Vikramāditya, son and successor of Kumāragupta I. Said to have restored the fallen fortunes of his family, to have conquered the Puṣyamitras, and fought with the Hūṇas. The Junāgaḍh inscription records his appointment of Parṇadatta as governor of Surāṣṭra, and Parṇadatta’s appointment of his own son Chakrapālita as governor of Junāgaḍh; the bursting of the embankment of the Sudarśana lake in the Gupta year 136, its repair by Chakrapālita in the following year, and the erection by him of a temple to Viṣṇu in the year 138.—CI. iii, 47-68. JRAS., n.s., xxi, 134; *ib.* 1893, 83.