The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.9

c30.9

This evidence points to the fact that the Gupta king who patronized him was the learned and accomplished Samudragupta, son and successor of Chandra-gupta I, who may have been actually known as Vikramāditya. That title, even if not actually assumed by Chandra-gupta I, may have been traditionally assigned to him, as being a recognized title applicable to any Gupta king. Without doubt Samudragupta was actually in possession of both Ayodhyā and Sravastī, and probably his father was so likewise : and if the recorded traditions connecting Vasubandhu with a Gupta king are well founded, it follows that Samudragupta in his youth must have borne the titles of both Chandraprakāśa (-prabhāva) and Bālāditya or Parāditya.