The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s12.101.1

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About 375 A.D. Chandra Gupta II ascended the throne of Ayodhyâ, where the seat of government had been removed by his father from Pataliputra, though the latter was still regarded as the official capital. Chandra Gupta (Vikramâditya) conquered the Śaka king Rudra Singh, son of Satya Singh and removed the seat of government to Ujjayinî about 395 A.D. (*Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society*, vol. 1, p. 211, and a Jaina work named *Buddha Vilâsa* quoted in the same volume at p. 413). Ujjayinî was at that time the capital of the Śaka kingdom comprising Surâshṭra, Malwa, Cutch, Sindh and Koṅkan. He was a patron of Buddhism and Jainism, though he himself was an orthodox Hindu, being the worshipper of Śiva according to some, of Vishṇu according to others. His coins show on the obverse a king shooting a lion with the legend "Mahârâjâdhirâja Śrî," and on the reverse a goddess seated on a lion with the legend "Sri Simha Vikrama" (Dr. Bhandarkar's *Peep into the Early History of India*, p. 390; Mr. V. A. Smith's *Early History of India*, p. 256). Dr. Hoernle, however, is of opinion that Yaśodharman, the general of the Gupta emperors, assumed the name of Vikramâditya in 533 A.D. after he defeated Mihirakula in the battle of Karura. But Mihirakula was a Hun and not a Śaka. It is said that in the reign of Vikramâditya, flourished the following celebrated persons: Kâlidâsa, the author of the *Raghuvamśa*, *Śakuntalâ*, etc., Amara Siṅha, author of the *Amara-kosha*;