The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.127

c29.127

It is evident that this great victory over the Huns must have been gained at the very beginning of the new reign; because another inscription, executed in the year 458, recites Skandagupta's defeat of the barbarians, and recognizes his undisputed possession of the peninsula of Surāshtra (Kāthiāwār), at the western extremity of the empire. The king had appointed as viceroy of the west an officer named Parnadatta, the possessor of all the virtues, according to the official poet; and the viceroy gave the responsible post of governor of the capital city, Jūnāgarh, to his own son, who distinguished his tenure of office by rebuilding the ancient embankment of the lake under the Girnār hill, which had again burst with disastrous results in the year of Skandagupta's accession. The benevolent work was completed in the following year, and consecrated a year later by the erection of a costly temple of Vishnu.²