History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c34.s8.17

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Generally speaking the reign of Vikrama was a happy period for the Deccan. He founded a new town named Vikramapura. That literature flourished under him and that his government was law-regulated may be known from the single fact that his minister Vijñāneśvara wrote his famous commentary, the Mitāksharā, on the Yājnavalkya Smriti which is recognised as the leading Hindu law treatise all over India except Bengal and which is respected even by the lawyers and law-courts of British India. It seems that law was studied in India in all the great Hindu states of this time; for besides the Mitāksharā, we find that Aparāditya Śilāhāra king of Thana himself wrote a learned commentary on Yājnavalkya Smriti a little after this and at Kanauj Lakshmidhara wrote Vyavahārakalpataru under the patronage of Govindachandra. The three verses at the end of each section of the Mitāksharā praise to the skies the rare combination of the three great items the most beautiful city Kalyan, the most learned pandit viz. Vijñāneśvara and the most powerful monarch Vikrama "ruling from the Himalayas to Rameshwar and from the eastern to the western ocean".