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VIKRAMADITYA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 66 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIKRAMADITYA , a legendary See also:

Hindu See also:king of Uzjain, who is supposed to have given his name to the Vikram Samvat, the era which is used all over See also:northern See also:India, except in See also:Bengal; and at whose See also:court the " nine gems " of See also:Sanskrit literature are also supposed to have flourished. The Vikram era is reckoned from the vernal See also:equinox of the See also:year 57 B.C., but there is no See also:evidence that that date corresponds with any event in the See also:life of an actual king. As a See also:matter of fact, all See also:dates in this era down to the loth See also:century never use the word Vikram, but that of Malaya instead, that being the tribe that gives its name to See also:Malwa. The name Vikramaditya simply means " See also:sun of See also:power," and was adopted by several Hindu See also:kings, of whom Chandragupta II. (Chandragupta Vikramaditya), who ascended the See also:throne of the Guptas about A.D. 375, approaches most nearly to the See also:legend. See See also:Alexander See also:Cunningham, See also:Book of See also:Indian Eras (1883) ; and See also:Vincent See also:Smith, See also:Early See also:History of India (1904).

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