Vikramaditya VI takes Chalukya throne

1075

The Western Chalukya king began a fifty-year reign that would push Chalukya power into a brief golden age in the Deccan. His court chronicler Bilhana composed the Vikramankadevacharita, a Sanskrit epic. He patronized the scholar Vijnaneshvara, whose Mitakshara became one of the fundamental Hindu legal texts, its authority on inheritance and property law enduring in Indian jurisprudence well into the modern era.