Vinayavasu, a chamberlain of Dṛḍhavarman, [173].

Vindhyaketu, a prince, [173].

Violent (ārabhaṭī) manner, [326], [327], [328].

Virādhaka, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [206], [208].

Vīradhavala, king of Gujarāt, [248], [249], [256].

Vīraka, a policeman, [141].

Virāṭa, a king, [97], [265], [266].

Viçākhadatta, dramatist (date as a younger contemporary of Kālidāsa supported, but inconclusively, by J. Charpentier, JRAS., 1923, pp. 585 ff.), [204]–12, [218], [253].

Viçvāmitra, a sage, [189], [190], [226], [227], [240], [245], [281], [302];
father of Çakuntalā, [152];
dialogue of, with the rivers in the Ṛgveda, [14], [17], [20].

Viçvanagara, a mendicant, [261].