While awaiting judgement, he wrote the Caurapâñcâśikâ, a fifty-stanza love poem, not knowing whether he would be sent into exile or die on the gallows.
Notable translations are those of Sir Edwin Arnold[2](London 1896) and Edward Powys Mathers[3] (Oxford, 1919) titled Black Marigolds.
He wandered through Mathura, Kanuj, Prayaga, Varanasi, Somnath, Kalyan and Rameswaram but luck eluded him.
[4] But while trekking back through Kalyan, Western Chalukya Empire King Vikramaditya VI appointed him as Vidyapathi.
Bilhana rewarded his patron by composing in his honor an epic Vikramankadevacharita.