Evidently, due to a family quarrel Krishna Chandra stayed away from Jeypore in the village of Sri Kurmam in Srimukhalingam, Andhra Pradesh.

He became a writer in all these languages and was awarded an honorary doctor of literature and made a Sahitya Samrat by the Andhra Bharati Tirtha Research University on 6 May 1933.

Long before he was crowned as the king of Jeypore, Vikram Dev was a renowned scholar who gained expertise in five languages - Sanskrit-Hindi, Odia, Telugu, Bengali and English.

He was awarded the doctorate degree of ‘Kala-Prapūrna’ and the honorary title of 'Sahitya Samrat' by the Andhra Bharati Tirtha Research University in 1933.

He annually invited and honored 100 learned scholars from all over India and donated one lac every year to the Andhra University.

He bore all the cost of publications for some renowned writers that he met in his time serving as the pro-chancellor of Andhra University.