Vikaramaditya II was a son of Vijayaditya. He ruled Badami from 734 AD-745 AD. He defeated the Pallava king, Narasimha Varman II, thus putting off the continuing hostilities. With this conquest, he took possession of musical instruments, banner, elephants, rubies which belonged to the Pallavas. He destroyed the power of the Chola, Kerala, Pandya.
It was under the rule of Samudragupta's son, Chandragupta II (very often referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) spanning 375-413/15 CE, that the Gupta empire achieved its zenith.
Chandragupta II controlled a vast empire, from the mouth of the Ganges to the mouth of the Indus River and from what is now North Pakistan down to the mouth of the Narmada.
Pataliputra continued to be the capital of his huge empire but Ujjain too became a sort of second capital..The large number of beautiful gold coins issued by the Gupta dynasty are a testament to the imperial grandeur of that age.
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