28 Facts About Vikramaditya

Vikramaditya was a legendary king who has been featured in hundreds of traditional stories including those in Baital Pachisi and Singhasan Battisi.

Rajbali Pandey, Kailash Chand Jain and others believe that Vikramaditya was an Ujjain based Malava king.

Proponents of this theory say that Vikramaditya is mentioned in works dating to before the Gupta era, including Brihathkatha and Gatha Saptashati.

Vikramaditya cannot be based on Chandragupta II, since the Gupta capital was at Pataliputra.

Legends surrounding Vikramaditya are contradictory, border on the fantastic and are inconsistent with historical facts; no epigraphic, numismatic or literary evidence suggests the existence of a king with the name of Vikramaditya around the first century BCE.

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Mirashi and DC Sircar, believe that Vikramaditya is probably based on the Gupta king Chandragupta II.

In most of the legends Vikramaditya had his capital at Ujjain, although some mention him as king of Pataliputra.

Vikramaditya was described as an adversary of the Pratishthana-based king Satavahana in a number of legends.

Max Muller believed that the Vikramaditya legends were based on the sixth-century Aulikara king Yashodharman.

The earliest work to mention Vikramaditya was probably Brihatkatha, an Indian epic written between the first century BCE and the third century CE in the unattested Paisaci language.

Vikramaditya, who prided himself on his generosity, was embarrassed and arranged a debate between Manoratha and 100 non-Buddhist scholars.

Vikramaditya then entered Pratishthana in disguise and won over a courtesan.

Vikramaditya was her lover for some time before secretly returning to Pataliputra.

Vikramaditya later returned to the courtesan's house, where Narasimha met and befriended him.

Vikramaditya asked the king to name the child Vikramaditya, and told him that the prince would be known as "Vishamashila" because of his hostility to enemies.

Vikramaditya began a campaign to conquer a number of kingdoms and subdued vetalas, rakshasas and other demons.

At the beginning of the Kali Yuga, Vikramaditya came from Kailasa and convened an assembly of sages from the Naimisha Forest.

Vikramaditya is said to have told Vikramaditya that 1,199 years after him, there would be another great king like him.

Political rivalry between the kings is sometimes extended to language, with Vikramaditya supporting Sanskrit and Shalivahana supporting Prakrit.

Vikramaditya later arrived from Pratishthana, defeated the Shakas, and began the Vikrama Samvat era to commemorate his victory.

Vikramaditya sent his vetala to find the child; the vetala traced Satavahana in Pratishthana, and Vikramaditya led an army there.

Vikramaditya offers to cut his body in eight places, and offers his head to the goddess.

Vikramaditya began searching for Ayodhya and met Prayaga, the king of tirthas.

The Vikramaditya mentioned in Paramartha's fourth–fifth century CE biography of Vasubandhu is generally identified with a Gupta king, such as Skandagupta or Purugupta.

Kalidasa is the only figure whose association with Vikramaditya is mentioned in works earlier than Jyotirvidabharana.

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In 78 CE, the Hindu king Vikramaditya defeated him and killed him in the Karur region, located between Multan and the castle of Loni.

The Vikramaditya era named after the first, and the Shaka era was associated with the defeat of the Shaka ruler by the second Vikramaditya.

The association of the era beginning in 57 BCE with Vikramaditya is not found in any source before the ninth century.