100 A. F. R. Hocrnlo— Inscribed Seal of Kumara Gupta II. [No 2, 



been a stranger to Kashmir ; so was Mihirakula ; lie is said to have 

 been imposed on Kashmir by a king Vikramaditya, also called Harsha, 

 of Ujjaiu, who is said to have been a powerful king who subdued the 

 whole world and destroyed the S'akas, a Mlechchha tribe. This I take 

 to be a confused version of the fact, that during the time of Narasimha- 

 gupta Baladitya, who afterwards allowed Mihirakula to proceed to 

 Kashmir, the Hiiiia (a S'aka tribe) were defeated by Yasovarmau, who 

 afterwards made himself an " emperor." Vikramaditya was a common 

 title in the Gupta family; Chandragupta II. and Skandagupta bore 

 it j and the similar title Kramaditya was born by Skaudagupta and 

 Kiuuaragupta II. In the Rajatarangini either Baladitya or Kuiuara- 

 gnpta II. Kminaditya is referred to by Vikramdditya ; and this Vi- 

 kramaditya is said to have died before Matrigupta's resignation of his 

 kingdom. As Mah-igupta is said to have resigned after a reign of about 

 four years, and as on the assumption of his identity with Mihirakula, he 

 became king of Kashmir about A. D. 530, Baladitya must have died 

 very soon after that year. According to the Rajatarangini, Vikramdditya 

 had a son, Pratapasila S'iladitya, who was expelled by the people of 

 Malava, but reinstated by king Pravarasena of Kashmir. Here, again, 

 there is a confused vei simi of certain facts. I take this S'iladitya to bo 

 identical with the king S'iladitya of Malava, who, according to Hiuen 

 Tsiaug, had lived (it) years before his own time, and who had reigned 

 for 50 years.* As Hiuen Tsiang was in Malava in A. D. 610, the period 

 of S'iladitya's reign is fixed as from about A. D. 630-680. He is com- 

 monly identified with the unnamed ' monarch ' who is, by Hiuen Tsiang, 

 said to have succeeded Vikramdditya of S'ravasti ; and this Vikramaditya 

 himself is commonly identified with the Vikramdditya of Malava, above 

 mentioned.t According to Hiuen Tsiang, Vikramaditya " lost his 

 kingdom" and was succeeded by the unnamed " monarch ", i. e., by 

 S'iladitya. I would suggest that Kumaragupta II. Kramaditya is 

 intended by Vikramaditya, who lost his kingdom by the usurpation of 

 Yasod barman ; and that Sildditya is one of the surnames of Yaso- 

 dharman. The latter, in his inscription (see above) is called, at 

 first, only a iiarwlhijiuli, which would agree with the "monarch" of 

 Hiuen Tsiang. The times also agree ; Yasodharman S'iladitya must have 

 usurped the imperial dignity soon after A. D. 530. Ho would then have 

 reigned about 50 years, clown to about A. D. 580. Throughout the whole 

 of his reign (compare columns 5 and 8 of the synchronistic fable), he had 

 rivals for his claim of the imperial dignity in the Maukhari Varmans, 

 till tho dignity was finally secured by Prabhdkara Vardhana who had 



* See Beat's Buddhist Eaeor<Js of the Western World, Vol. Ill, p. 201. 

 + See ibidem, Vol. I, pp. 100, 108. 



