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Siddhasena Divākara and Vikramāditya
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(h) Great prosperity17, = Point 10. (i) Fame transgressing the oceans 179, = Point 12. (j)Love for learning and philosophy180, = Point 13. (k) Having sons181, = Point 14.
(1) His excellent qualities, surpassing those of all other rulers, are the cause of his fame182, = Point 15.
(m) Sagacity 183, = Point 16. (n ) Liberality184, = Point 17. (0) Skill at arms and valour185, = Point 19. (p) Outspoken kindness of heart186, = Point 20. (9) Profound erudition 187, = Point 21. (r) Being a Hindu188, = Point 23. (s) Super-man189, = Point 26.
If Harişeņa ( leaving aside the Eran Pillar Inscription, as it is anyhow incomplete ) does not mention the period of continued peace and prosperity to which Siddhasena so emphatically refers, this may be due to the fact that Harişeņa's Prasasti was probably composed at a time when Samudragupta's campaigns either had just come to an end or were still in progress ( an assumption which is also corroborated by the much commented-upon absence of any allusion therein to the Aśvamedha performed by that ruler ). Siddhasena, on the other hand, appears to have written his Dvātrimśikā suggested. ( For him, as a Jaina Sādhu, the absence of any allusion to the Aśvamedha is only natural.)
The beautiful characterization of Samudragupta as “a lord, super-man, severe, ever vigilant, mindful about himself”, found in the Buddhist Mañjuśrīmālakalpa190, likewise covers a number of the characteristics of Siddhasena's patron".
( 4 ) It may be argued that the above considerations are of too general a nature to allow of the definite conclusion that none but Samudragupta can be the object of the Guņavacanadvātrimśikā. To meet this objection, an additional argument can be adduced in support of that proposition. This is the fact that Siddhasena's poem
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