Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c21.s1.13

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² In literature Vikramāditya is represented as ruling at Pāṭaliputra (*Kathā-sarit-sāgara*, VII, 4. 3:—*Vikramāditya ityāsīdrājā Pāṭaliputrake*) as well as Ujjayinī and other cities. Sāhasāṅka of Ujjain is said to have ordered the exclusive use of Sanskrit in his harem *Kāvya Mīmāṁsā*, 3rd. ed. p. 50). He thus reversed the policy of Āḍhyarāja (p. 197) or Sātavāhana of Kuntala. *C.f.* the verse in *Sarasvatī Kaṇṭhābharaṇa* II. 15. Paramārtha, the biographer of Vasubandhu, refers to Ayodhyā as the capital of a Vikramāditya while Hiuen Tsang represents Srāvastī as the seat of the famous king (EHI, 3rd Ed., pp. 332-33). Subandhu refers to the fame of Vikramāditya, but not to his capital city, "like a lake Vikramāditya hath left the earth, save indeed in fame" (Keith, *Hist. Sans. Lit.*, p. 312). *Cf.* Hāla, v. 64.