The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.57

c33.57

Vikramāditya VI, or Vikramāṅka, the hero of Bilhana's historical poem, who deposed his brother Somesvara II, and was formally crowned or anointed in A. D. 1076, reigned for half a century in tolerable, though not unbroken, peace. He is recorded to have captured Kānchī, and late in his reign was engaged in a serious struggle with Vishnu, the Hoysala king of Dōrasamudra in Mysore. Vikramānka considered his achievements sufficiently notable to justify him in establishing a new era, running from A. D. 1076, called after his name, but it never came into general use.¹ His capital Kalyāna, the modern Kalyāni in the Nizam's Dominions, which had been founded by Somesvara I, was the residence of the celebrated jurist Vijnānēsvara, author of the *Mitāksharā*, the chief authority on Hindu law outside of Bengal.²