भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

hardly any Saka to be seen in India, as it previously happened in the case of the Kushans. 263. In the historical past, there lived and ruled good many emperors in India, but there was hardly any as suprisingly popular as this Emperor Vikramaditya, who exterminated the Saka-Kushans so thoroughly, that not a trace of any of them is found today. Even a foreigner, the Chinese traveller, Fa-hien (or Fa-hsien), who visited India in his reign, has paid a glowing tribute to the prosperity, happiness, wealth and contentment that had reached its height, throughout the whole of the Indian empire under the Guptas. Even today in the innumerable Indian villages, the name of King Vikramaditya, and his high sense of administration and justice is lovingly sung in folk-tales and ballad. After having defended the powerful unitary Indian empire and having developed it in every respect for more or less thirty-five years, Samrat Vikramaditya died in 414 A.D. 264. The epoch, which began with the royal seal of Samrat Vikramaditya, the proud Victor of Saka-Kushans, is THE THIRD GLORIOUS EPOCH of Indian History.